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NIST Tool Will Make Math-Heavy Research Papers Easier to View Online (www.nist.gov)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/math

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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.