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Originally Posted by Hitch

Okay: I admit I wish I had MathML. But seriously, we can all MAKE this stuff,but we have ONE reader that can display it, for the love of heaven. Now, that's frustration.

And I wouldn't mind columns NOT in tables. That's a pipe dream, of course--or it will be egregiously complicated--outside of FXL.

So am I right (^^ x ^^) about two-column "not FXL" then?

Wow, is Jon contagious?

Well, I freely admit that my disapproval of javascript in ebooks is a personal opinion.

Jon does not have a monopoly on strongly-held opinions, even if he does control a disproportionate amount of the market.

Again, in fairness to MathML, it would be a larger part of the market, if we could use it. That's undeniable. I could pick up quite a lot of work, if I could wield that across the retailers. No argument. Of course, much like backlist fiction, it would be a temporary gold rush--and certainly not "low-hanging fruit," like the million+ original push with fiction was--but hey, a girl's gotta eat.

It would still be a small part of the market. But as you say, it would -- for a while -- become a very lucrative part of the market, due to the talent involved, the backlist of mathematical texts that could use it, and above all, the first-mover advantage.

Larger I will grant you.