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Old 07-26-2008, 03:57 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Manichean View Post
The Word (or Open Office) formula support is rudimentary at best. I haven't as yet searched for CHM versions of the books, but I highly doubt they're available- PDF is the de facto standard for digital publishing in science literature. And, aside from that, I'm happy when I just need to slap the PDF file on the device without any need to convert.
But more importantly, it seems I wasn't clear about one thing: I wasn't complaining about PDF support. What I was trying to say was that, while it could certainly be improved, I'm quite happy with what I got so far.

As for the formulas, I don't think Mobipocket does have any formula support at all (it is, after all, just encapsulated HTML, right?), so probably the only solution would be embedded images.
For formulas: MathML isn't included in any e-book format... yet. I expect ePub in the next version of its standard to include MathML support. Currently, it would already be possible to use MathML in an ePub files if you use a proper fallback (XHTML + images for formulas in SVG).
SVG though, is already included in the standard, and it's fairly easy to export formulas in SVG.
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