How to view math equations on Kindle

JaredS · 10-30-2020, 08:24 AM

I have an epub that contains a lot of mathematical equations. I have tried converting it to mobi and azw3 formats but the formatting gets messed up when viewing on a Kindle. The equations are in MathML format, which does not render correctly on my Kindle. I have other eBooks that replace the markup notation with images like .svg and they work perfectly.

Is there any way to convert this to a Kindle readable format and convert the MathML sections to images?

I know there are ways to do the two separately but that would mean manually replacing hundreds of markup tags with images. It would be great if there was a simpler answer. Thanks

JSWolf · 10-30-2020, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JaredS

I have an epub that contains a lot of mathematical equations. I have tried converting it to mobi and azw3 formats but the formatting gets messed up when viewing on a Kindle. The equations are in MathML format, which does not render correctly on my Kindle. I have other eBooks that replace the markup notation with images like .svg and they work perfectly.

Is there any way to convert this to a Kindle readable format and convert the MathML sections to images?

I know there are ways to do the two separately but that would mean manually replacing hundreds of markup tags with images. It would be great if there was a simpler answer. Thanks

You can use MathML Cloud to convert the MathML equations to SVG.

https://mathmlcloud.org/

JaredS · 10-30-2020, 08:43 AM

I appreciate the answer but this does not address the problem I posed. No offence but did you even read the question?

kovidgoyal · 10-30-2020, 11:05 AM

Dont know of an automated way to do it.

ps67 · 10-30-2020, 02:44 PM

KFX has some support for mathml (see the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines)
You could try to install the KFX output plugin and see what happens.

JSWolf · 11-02-2020, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by JaredS

I appreciate the answer but this does not address the problem I posed. No offence but did you even read the question?

I did read your post. You cannot convert MathML to SVG using a Calibre conversion. That's why I gave you the solution of converting MathML to SVG that you say works.

stumped · 11-02-2020, 11:03 AM

The Kindle store maths book I have uses gif and jpg images for all the math. They scale with the text ok.

10-30-2020, 08:24 AM	#1
JaredS Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2020 Device: Kindle 4	How to view math equations on Kindle I have an epub that contains a lot of mathematical equations. I have tried converting it to mobi and azw3 formats but the formatting gets messed up when viewing on a Kindle. The equations are in MathML format, which does not render correctly on my Kindle. I have other eBooks that replace the markup notation with images like .svg and they work perfectly. Is there any way to convert this to a Kindle readable format and convert the MathML sections to images? I know there are ways to do the two separately but that would mean manually replacing hundreds of markup tags with images. It would be great if there was a simpler answer. Thanks

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10-30-2020, 08:43 AM	#3
JaredS Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2020 Device: Kindle 4	I appreciate the answer but this does not address the problem I posed. No offence but did you even read the question?

10-30-2020, 11:05 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Dont know of an automated way to do it.

10-30-2020, 02:44 PM	#5
ps67 Guru Posts: 731 Karma: 7000000 Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: Italy Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Elipsa, Pocketbook Color PB633, Inkpad Color	KFX has some support for mathml (see the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines) You could try to install the KFX output plugin and see what happens.

11-02-2020, 11:03 AM	#7
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	The Kindle store maths book I have uses gif and jpg images for all the math. They scale with the text ok.

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