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Originally Posted by Faterson
Hi Terisa, on principle, there is no problem displaying mathematical formulas (or whatever!) properly in EPUBs. I know it's a common prejudice to say they can only be properly displayed in PDF files, but that's nonsense. It's true it may sometimes take much effort on the part of the publisher to ensure that mathematical formulas (and such) are displayed properly in EPUBs -- and that is why, publishers being human beings and therefore lazy, they instead prefer to push a button and spit out an unwieldy PDF file at the hapless reader. 
After all, EPUBs are nothing but modified HTML files (or webpages, if you will) -- and you can properly display anything you want, on a webpage. Even if it were in the shape of inserted glyphs (small pictures) embedded within standard text -- that would still be preferable over hitting users over their heads with unwieldy PDF files, just to save the publishers the effort required to produce a proper EPUB edition. |
A book full of pictures for math formulas? Sorry, I don't think it's a good option. I've tried it and it's not much better than PDF, for me at least. Till ePub isn't able to show my end of career project (math project) in the same way than latex/tex/PDF without having to print all the formulas as pictures, it's not a good layout for technical books.