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Thanks for the publicity, Alvaro and Amir.

Note that TeXmacs can both export formulas as MathML as well (as noted in the 
discussion)
and as MathJax (not clearly mentioned so far).

It should be noted that both MathML and MathJax come with their problems
(and that is why a prefer the less error-prone solution of images):

  - Both the rendering quality of MathML and MathJax is not as good as with 
TeXmacs.

  - MathML lacks support for formula integration in the main text.
    For instance, equation arrays are a pain.  I finally found a way to
    hack this with CSS in the case of images, but MathML is not sufficiently
    widely used for duplicating this effort.

  - MathJax lacks several LaTeX constructs, so the standard LaTeX export 
filter
    would need to be hacked quite a bit for various exotic constructs.
    I don't have time and energy for doing the LaTeX export filters twice...

Concerning copy & paste, we might annotate images with LaTeX formulas.
That would not be very hard to implement, although it would take some time,
of course.

Best wishes, --Joris



On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 08:03:40PM +0100, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
>    This is now on the front page of Hacker News, thanks to Amir Michail
>    [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991447
>    Enjoy!
>    Álvaro.
>    On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 18:39, TeXmacs <[2]address@hidden>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Dear all,
> 
>      I am happy to announce the release of TeXmacs 1.99.14 which features
>      many bug fixes, improved Octave and Qt 5 support, and an even better
>      converter to Html.  The new converter is stylable using CSS,
>      which should allow you to produce nice web versions of your papers
>      that are readable on multiple devices.  My personal website shows
>      what you can do:
> 
>          [3]https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/joris.html
> 
>      For a random article, see:
> 
>          [4]https://www.texmacs.org/joris/ffnlogn/ffnlogn.html
> 
>      The precise CSS style can be selected in the user preferences
>      (Convert -> Html -> 'dark colored' CSS style sheet).
>      If someone with CSS design skills wants to contribute other styles,
>      then I would be happy to include them in the official distribution.
> 
>      I also take the opportunity to re-announce the existence of
>      'The Jolly Writer', a new book on TeXmacs:
> 
>          [5]https://www.scypress.com/book_info.html
> 
>      Shipment may be slowed down a bit due to the COVID situation,
>      but only the US seems to be affected for the moment.
> 
>      Best wishes, --Joris
> 
> References
> 
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>    1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991447
>    2. mailto:address@hidden
>    3. https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/joris.html
>    4. https://www.texmacs.org/joris/ffnlogn/ffnlogn.html
>    5. https://www.scypress.com/book_info.html
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