Thread: Example of e-book with well-formatted math?
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Old 06-21-2015, 05:16 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
I remember this one rendering surprisingly well in a RMSDK-based application a few years ago. http://downloads.hindawi.com/journal...08/421650.epub. I vaguely recall looking at the HTML inside the epub, and getting the impression that I would never be able to produce something like that myself.
Thanks, Rkomar. That's definitely the best I've seen. Still displays well in Bluefire, falls flat in iBooks, presumably as it doesn't declare some apple.com.special.property.allow-other-fonts data field, and fails abjectly when converted with kindlegen, presumably because kindlegen doesn't know how to treat an <svg> tag properly
One heady moment I thought the math was displayed as HTML, but closer inspection showed that it's "just" embedded SVG with publisher fonts, i.e. using SVG to scale and position characters. Still, it's nicely done. I wonder how, with what tool? Somehow, it doesn't really look hand-crafted. I couldn't find any hint of any production software in the file, but found the use of an xhtml-math-svg xml namespace intriguing.
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