The results look just GREAT. Could you post the org file to give dummies like me a head start? Especially the serializing back to HTML? How is it done?
Thank you in advance! Detlef On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:37:26 +0200 Jan Böcker <jan.boec...@jboecker.de> wrote: > On 08/14/2010 08:09 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > From now on, the default settings will > > use the incredible MathJax library to display math in > > exported HTML. If you had never turned on LaTeX snipped > > math publishing, this will now magically work all by itself. > > Yes, indeed it does! > > Since I read the announcement this morning, I have been playing with > MathJax. I found that when an HTML file on the local hard disk uses > MathJax from the web, MathJax reverts to image fonts in Firefox (this is > caused by a security feature of Firefox and mentioned in the MathJax > FAQ). Using a local MathJax installation in a subdirectory fixes this. > > Most of my time was spent messing around with XULRunner to load the > exported HTML page, wait until MathJax has done its magic, then > serialize the result back to XHTML. > > And replace the file:// URLs pointing to the fonts of my local MathJax > installation with data: URIs, thus embedding the fonts within the HTML > file itself, just because I can. > > The result is a single HTML file which does not require JavaScript to be > viewed (and incurs no delay while the math is being rendered). However, > as no MathJax code is present, the zoom and view source functions of > MathJax are not available. > > I have put an example online. > > Normal org-mode export using MathJax from orgmode.org: > http://www.jboecker.de/2010/08/14/mathjax-example.html > > Single-file no-javascript version: > http://www.jboecker.de/2010/08/14/mathjax-example-nojs.html > > Internet Explorer will not use the correct font, AFAIK because it only > supports the EOT fonts (MathJax uses OTF for other browsers), and in > this case also because I embedded the fonts using data: URIs and IE > limits the size of data: URIs to 32 KB. > > In browsers other than Firefox (I tested with Firefox and Opera), the > font size and spacing will differ slightly between the two versions. > > If people are interested, I can try to make the program take the name of > a file to operate on as a command line argument, so this could be run as > part of an org-mode export process or something. Of course, the > embedding of fonts in data: URIs would be optional. > > > I am really, really excited about this change. Using MathJax makes > > Org-mode > > a tool without peer for scientific note taking, I believe. It will > > also drastically improve the quality of printed web pages, because > > the web pages will not use fixed-resolution images, but scaleable fonts. > > And don't forget that on modern high resolution displays, it is common > to zoom in just to be able to decipher math in images, especially if you > want sub- and superscripts to be legible. > > -- Jan > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
