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Re: Setting Page Size and displaying result correctly
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Christopher Dimech |
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Re: Setting Page Size and displaying result correctly |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Oct 2020 22:45:31 +0200 |
I agree that math rendering in html would be very useful. Still getting things
right
in pdf documents by being able to change the pagesize is much more useful as I
would
use that everyday rather than when preparing a release.
I send you two files. A document and a library with some useful macros.
Christopher
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2020 at 10:18 PM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Setting Page Size and displaying result correctly
>
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> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:04:04PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > > > 2. Possibilities for using Texinfo for Screencasts, especially
> > > > screencasts
> > > > that include the display of mathematical expressions.
> > > >
> > > > The difficulty setting a different page size does not crop up for
> > > > software
> > > > manuals. But the problem crops up when you want to use a texinfo
> > > > document
> > > > for a screen cast. In such an instance, changing the page size would
> > > > be important, because the standard paper sizes make the text too small
> > > > for display purposes on the screen.
> > >
> > > I'm not too sure what your use case is for this but perhaps the HTML
> > > output
> > > would be more appropriate for this?
> > >
> > > Display of mathematical expressions may be difficult with HTML, but it is
> > > supposed to be possible.
> > >
> > > > This would enable texinfo to be used in many other circumstances in
> > > > addition
> > > > to simply writing manuals.
> > >
> > > Writing manuals is the main purpose of Texinfo. It is not a general
> > > typesetting or formatting system for the display of arbitrary information.
> >
> > Yes, but I have started an Official Gnu Package for Geological Subsurface
> > Imaging,
> > with some serious mathematical content. I often have to rewrite if I want
> > to use
> > the material rather than just taking the texinfo code I used to make the
> > manual.
> > I also know many people who would find using texinfo useful for similar
> > types
> > of work involving software and mathematics. I gave up working with html.
> > And I
> > would rather continue in texinfo than having to twitch purely to Pure Tex
> > or Latex.
>
> Support for math rendering in HTML is a long-standing problem. See this old
> mail:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-05/msg00045.html
>
> I think it is something that would be useful to a lot of users. latex2html
> does work if you have it installed and pass the "-c L2H=1" argument. However,
> it might be more reliable to use MathJax instead. All this seems to require
> is adding a few lines to the HTML file and wrapping the TeX math code with
> some marker strings. See https://www.mathjax.org/#gettingstarted
>
> Unfortunately MathJax uses JavaScript, but there is not much alternative. We
> would have to deal with the complications of hosting JavaScript code and
> ensuring it is appropriately licensed if MathJax support were made an official
> part of Texinfo.
>
> Could you point me towards a Texinfo file with a lot of math in it so I
> could experiment?
>