Posted by dorayme on 10/14/29 11:59

In article <tCeTg.22754$gy1.14884@reader1.news.jippii.net>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Scripsit Toby Inkster:
>
> > Even something as simple as this:
> > http://www.teacherschoice.com.au/images/distance_formula_2d.gif
> > is clumsy in HTML.
>
> Actually, it's fairly simple and natural, if you accept a presentation where
> you use, say, sqrt(foo) to denote the square root of foo, instead of
> requiring a square root symbol with a vinculum that extends over the
> radicand. Even the latter can be handled relatively easily, as the demo page
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/dist.html
> If you try it using varying font sizes, you will see some of the benefits of
> text and HTML over images.
>

True. There are ways to overcome this as AF pointed out in a
recent thread on em based pic dims. It is a drag to do (important
to make the pic reasonably big and let the browser downsize it
rather than up it). Here is something quickly made.

http://tinyurl.com/rzhqn


> For general and miscellaneous notes on presenting math expressions in HTML
> (and CSS), see
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/
>
> (I just updated it a bit when I realized that the vinculum is better
> constructed using a top border rather than an overline.)

This last is an interesting article. Thank you for posting the
url.

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dorayme

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