The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad

Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by HnNoPassMailer on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:49PM (#3266781)

Apparently. It's a shame that researchers hae to use such software. Probably part of why research is so conservative and slow. Why not a funky html "paper"? With interactive formulae, clickable links (hey, wasn't PageRank based on references? Maybe time to turn that around) to references. Most important, a clickable link to an academic profile.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by william42 on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:18PM (#3267661)

Please explain to me how to type the fraction (a^2+b^2-c^2)/(2ab), which is the simple $\frac{a^2+b^2-c^2}{2ab}$ in TeX, so that the numerator appears above the denominator in HTML. Or any non-TeX layout.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by HnNoPassMailer on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @09:48AM (#3270156)

A div/span with vertical aligment containing 2 divs, of which one has border-bottom or border-top set.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by rmc on Saturday November 26, 2011 @12:45PM (#3280244)

Please give an example of this. What's the markup? It's almost certainly more long winded and harder to read.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by asdfasdf1 on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:32PM (#3271598)

Now make it machine-searchable.

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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by rmc on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @04:05PM (#3267362)

You can put clickable links in LaTeX.

And if you're including mathematical formulae, which scientific academia will do, HTML is rubbish for formulae.

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