Re: [boost] Which DPI size for equations in HTML docs?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-05 08:29:11

Martin Bonner wrote:
>> Not a bad idea at all: but I'm not sure how to make that work with
>> the quickbook toolchain.  Remember that whatever we do has to rely on
>> automated
>> processing: there are way to many equations in Boost.Math now to mark
>> these
>> up by hand (and then maintain them!)  I'm assuming that there is no
>> way to
>> make a selection based on the screen dpi in css?
>>
> Well, if there was some way of getting the images marked up as (for
> example) width='40em', then we can let the browser do the scaling
> (which would be way cool - it mean the graphics would shrink and grow
> with CTRL-+/CTRL-minus).
>
> Can you specify an equation width in the source?  Would that be too
> much work?

Well there are 234 .mml files, so I don't want to do it by hand :-0

I guess an automatic method might be possible, as long as the rescaling 
works well across all the common browsers.

John.