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Originally Posted by Hitch
Dahlink, and whom, exactly, is the "you" in this scenario? Which person or party is the schmuck making these oh-so-easy SVGs? And whom is the person stuck coding these mothers inside the ePUB, exactly? (And don't get me STARTED about making the matching jpgs, for KDP backward compatibility....and coding all the fallback stuff.)
You do realize that the people writing this stuff are creating the MathML either in Word (yes, really!!!) or in LaTEX, right? They're not helpfully making these on some random website and then... I mean, I think you're thinking about possible solutions (good on you for that) for problems that don't actually happen in the wild. I'm talking about solutions for files that have thousands of the little bastards in 'em already...
I don't think I've ever had anyone come to me with a file in one hand and a gajillion SVGs in the other...I don't think. Granted, it's been a lotta years, but still, I'm not quite that demented yet...
Hitch
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There's tools to generate SVG equations from LaTeX.
Like this one. Pandoc will also spit out MathML from LaTeX with zero effort into an ePub. I can create better ePubs from my own stuff in 30 seconds than I can buy.
MathML being written in essentially plain text means file sizes are considerably smaller as opposed to images. It's also easier for accessibility as screen readers can be set up to deal with it while SVG or pngs means somebody has to write the proper alt tags for them. While SVG is better than PNG the increased file size from using hundreds of images makes a lot of readers choke in my experience which is well not a great experience. Often the ePub is bigger than the PDF.