Hello, World!
  July 2, 2024


This is a testing first article on this ”blog”.

What is that all about?

In the articles section I will post things I read or worked with that I think are worth sharing. That will mostly include physics, computational modeling and technology.

How does it work?

The content you see has been created with LaTeXML. From my experience it is simpler and generates nicer results than TeX4ht. It was then integrated to the main page with server side inclusion.
There is some problem with the rendering of mathematical formulas. LaTeXML renders equations into MathML by default. In 2013 Google stopped supporting MathML in Chromium engine. That means math would have to be handled by MathJax or displayed on images. Using images for math is just ugly so I chose to use MathJax.
This problem doesn’t apply do Firefox (thank you Mozilla). Tor Browser has some problems with old math fonts. Good news is that support for MathML is slowly brought back to Chromium based browsers. I’ll remove MathJax as soon as native MathML is usable on all commonly used browsers.

Will there be a gopher mirror of this ”blog”?

No. To display math there I would have to render equations into images. Even worse - for every reference in text reader would have to find and open the corresponding image. I could just put pdfs there, but that’s completely missing the point of a ”blog”.
I will think about gopher only content though :)

Update March 2024

Reviewing articles after server rebuild. MathML is fully functional now, MathJax is no longer needed. Gopher is removed for now since I haven’t really had anything interesting there.