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On 29/06/2023 20:53, Wayne Dick wrote:
> There is a prevalent but incorrect belief that mathematical formulas are 
> images. Many web pages depict them as images. 

I've not heard of that "belief". What I do know is that due to lack of 
broad, consistent support for other ways of representing them (with 
MathML support etc having historically been very poor), authors have 
been forced to *use* images to represent them.

So this gripe is less about "authors need to stop seeing formulae as 
images that have inherent 2-Dimensional meaning", but rather "authors 
should start to use other technologies, like MathML, SVG, etc, and make 
sure that they adapt to the available space".

P
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