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> However if your book is only available as a pdf I'm probably going to skip it. Wait, what format do you expext a book to be? I mostly skip any book that is
by enriquto 7y ago
> However if your book is only available as a pdf I'm probably going to skip it.
Wait, what format do you expext a book to be? I mostly skip any book that is not on pdf
- Terretta 7y agoSomething that reflows when you change text size, font family, or page orientation.
- enriquto 7y agoI am not sure that we can call a text that has not yet been typeset a "book". In any case, do you know any such format that does not completely botch equations? The closest I can imagine is html with mathjax.
- aurbano 7y agoeBook formats can do that, but they may struggle with math notation - I haven't read any mathematical work on ebooks.
- enriquto 7y agoI once did. I'm still in therapy to recover from the trauma.
- contravariant 7y agoIf you want a standalone HTML solution I reckon you could embed the formula as SVG. Or maybe you can somehow get MathML to look nice, but so far that seems tricky without using JavaScript to help (which might not be supported/desirable in a document format) and I'm not sure about the state of MathML support in e-readers. One of the problems with including mathematical formulae in a reflowable document format is that the concept of reflowable mathematical notation simply doesn't seem to exist, so In practice you'll end up with something equivalent to a picture.
- majkinetor 7y agoYou can also reflow with Foxit PDF Reader FYI (on all platforms)
- enriquto 7y agoit does not seem to be available for openbsd. Do you have a link? (or at least to the source code)