Re: Expectation to --no-pdf option (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Address some issues with sphinx detection)

From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Expectation to --no-pdf option (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Address some issues with sphinx detection)
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 08:02:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bktzhfcj.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ba5a52e-cab6-05cf-a66e-adc58c467e1f@gmail.com>

Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> writes:

> In my tests, the mathjax extension works with all the versions of Sphinx
> I tested (1.7.9, 2.4.4, 3.4.3 (debian bullseye), 4.2.0 (openSUSE LEAP 15.4),
> and 5.0.2).
> Note that math expressions should look much sharper (vector fonts)
> than those from imgmath (pixel images).
> The time for a browser to complete the rendering might be longer than
> with imgmath, especially for pages with a lot of math expressions,
> though.  (Yes, I see some of media documents have a lot of them.)
>
> When you are detached from network connections, browsers will give
> up and show those expressions in mathjax source code.

Pulling in a bunch of JavaScript from the net while browsing the kernel
docs is not an entirely pleasing solution either.  But perhaps it's
preferable to loading the system with Latex.  I kind of wish we could
just do without the fancy math processing entirely, but I lost that
battle some time ago...:)

Mauro, have you looked at that option?

Thanks,

jon