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Originally Posted by radius
How are people writing up math? I initially thought MathML would be an option, but after trying a few tests with that and SVG, I ended up using MS Word and then creating a png image.
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I wrote a topic on this:
Tutorial: Formulas to PNG.
That used LibreOffice Math -> PDF -> PNG.
Nowadays, I use LaTeX -> PDF -> PNG (explained those methods further in the topic).
Doing it this way will allow you to easily generate proper vector + bitmap images directly from the source.
And in the future, as MathML support gets better, you have your equations sitting in a nice source format, and can (easily) convert to MathML.
Note: MathML currently only works in certain readers + newer devices. You have to keep in mind all the old devices out there (and if you want Kindle, that's a no go). So you have to create these bitmap fallback images anyway.
Note #2: At ebookcraft 2018, Peter Krautzberger also gave a workshop "Equations in ebooks" (
Slides here, no audio/video online though).
His presentation pretty much came to similar conclusions (needing all the fallbacks because of all the different/ancient devices out there). He discusses slightly different methods/tools, and compatibility tests with different readers/renderers.