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Originally Posted by ddave
Creating an image to embed is cumbersome. Why can't we have a font of math/science symbols? Then, an equation could be entered by loading the appropriate font? An eReader or a computer could do that.
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I don't think the problem has to do with fonts. They could stick the fonts in no problem, sure. It's more that having the fonts would be useless unless the file format supports the kind of mark-up you need for equations. Besides PDF, most of the formats used by portable readers seem to be xml based, but they don't seem to support MathML--so working that in would be the best first step.
But it sounds like you want something more: MathML is not the kind of mark-up that you'd want to do manually as an end user, when, e.g., entering notes. So combine MathML support with something that converted, e.g., LaTeX markup to MathML for display, and boom, we'd be good to go.
Sure, this would be for a very specialized market, and there are lots of other bells and whistles that might have a larger demand, but hey, we can dare to dream...
