Improve rendering of images

[yoshuawuyts]

It appears many notations can also be expressed as unicode. Not sure if it's useful, but it might be worth considering. So far these are the pros / cons I could think of:

pro

• sharable! It's just plain text so it'll work anywhere.
• crisper rendering, though saving mathjax output as svg might achieve the same

con

• it's visually different from formulas out in the wild (e.g. LaTeX rendering)

Example

100
 ∑ i
i=1

100
 ∑ (2i+1)
i=1

 3   6
 ∑   ∑ (3ij)
i=1 j=4

 6
 Π i
i=1

â

Thanks!

[mattdesl]

I think in some cases it will make sense, like describing â.

However the end goal is to demystify the equations in graphics papers, so I think it's best just to stick to images.

SVG would be best, maybe it could be automated cleanly.

[yoshuawuyts]

Ah yeah, that makes sense. Renaming this issue.

[StoneCypher]

I strongly disagree. Unicode can be carried (eg by cut and paste) to places that images cannot, renders well on a much broader variety of devices, etc.

Using images to replace unicode is an HTML3 era approach. Please reconsider.

[allo-]

There is MathJAX, another option is to render LaTeX into svg (i.e. via eps as intermediate format) or LaTeX into png. Or just create a PDF instead of a html (markdown) document.

Trying to use unicode will fail for many interesting formulas.

[mattdesl]

All images are hotlinking to codecogs and using SVG format. For now this ticket is fixed, but it has introduced a new problem: #29.

Closing..