• GenderNeutralBro
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    1 year ago

    Considering how much computers and math go hand-in-hand, I’m surprised this problem was not solved 30+ years ago.

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      1 year ago

      PDFs work great. They’re just not accessible or “web-native.” Rendering LaTeX formulae in HTML5 has been a thing for many years, but full conversion of entire papers to HTML5 is trickier. The original version of LaTeXML came out in 2004, but it still takes a lot of work to get a good looking document out of it.