re: PeerJ: I missed that, nice! re: semantics vs visual layout of math... Wikipedia says OpenMath is a thing, but... that only solves half the problem. Once

re: PeerJ: I missed that, nice! re: semantics vs visual layout of math... Wikipedia says OpenMath is a thing, but... that only solves half the problem. Once you have a format that encodes what you want, someone has to actually it. Like, if some writes x^{-1} and f^{-1}, it's hard for a computer to figure out that the first one means "the number you get when you divide 1 by x", whereas the second one means "the function you get when you compute the inverse of f". And if the author can't be bothered to slow down and say which is which, then the reader will have to guess. re: HTML to arxiv: not ready for prime time, if you actually follow that link. re: kerning: TeX's advantage here is not fundamental, I think. Just need a good font, as far as I know. (Actually that's not far; I know almost nothing here.) re: layout: CSS is finally getting good at this from what I hear. re: talk: looks familiar; maybe I should re-watch it.