TeXmacs and HTML

Since TeXmacs 1.99.14 we support an improved converter to HTML. The new converter is stylable using CSS, which should allow you to produce nice web versions of your papers that are readable on multiple devices. Joris' personal website shows what you can do: https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/joris.html

For a random math paper, see: https://www.texmacs.org/joris/ffnlogn/ffnlogn.html

The precise CSS style can be selected in the user preferences dialog: Preferences...→Convert→Html→CSS style sheet.

If someone with CSS design skills wants to contribute other styles, then we would be happy to include them in the official distribution.

Note that TeXmacs can both export formulas as MathML as well (as noted in the discussion) and as MathJax (not clearly mentioned so far).

It should be noted that both MathML and MathJax come with their problems (and that is why a prefer the less error-prone solution of images):

• Both the rendering quality of MathML and MathJax is not as good as with TeXmacs

• MathML lacks support for formula integration in the main text. For instance, equation arrays are a pain. Joris found a way to hack this with CSS in the case of images, but MathML is not sufficiently widely used for duplicating this effort.

• MathJax lacks several LaTeX constructs, so the standard LaTeX export filter would need to be hacked quite a bit for various exotic constructs and we don't have currently enough developer time and energy for doing the LaTeX export filters twice.

Concerning copy&paste, we might annotate images with LaTeX formulas. That would not be very hard to implement, although it would take some time, of course.