Re: use case: page based scholarly reference?

On 11/06/2015 15:26 , Dave Cramer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org
> <mailto:ivan@w3.org>> wrote:
>     P.S. I have to say that PLOS is not a really good example for
>     quality. I was shocked to see that, on [2], all the numbers in the
>     text are… images! It looks horrible in my browser, it is bad in so
>     many ways… Sigh...
>
> Just wow! Here's how they mark up the number "1.8 million":
>
>   <span class="inline-formula"><img
> src="article/asset?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115253.e003.PNG"
> class="inline-graphic"></span> million
>
> Human-readable AND accessible. Nice job!*

"Just wow!" was pretty much my reaction too, at least if you filter out 
the parts that one wouldn't post to a public mailing list.

> Is this an automated MathML to image conversion used inappropriately?

But how would you end up with MathML to markup just the one number in 
the first place? Broken LaTeX conversion? Note that not *every* number 
is imaged (but quite a few are).

-- 
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:19:06 UTC