Comment on Ask HN: Why is WolframAlpha serving rendered text images instead of plain text?parentComments−Herring17yWikipedia occasionally has complex mathematical formulae & it seems to be working fine. This isn't a hard problem.−andylei17ythose formulae are rendered as images−wlievens17y... whereas text is rendered as text, is his point. But I understand the original explanation. It's all Mathematica, so it makes sense to let Mathematica format it and then spit it out as images.
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Wikipedia occasionally has complex mathematical formulae & it seems to be working fine. This isn't a hard problem.
those formulae are rendered as images
... whereas text is rendered as text, is his point. But I understand the original explanation. It's all Mathematica, so it makes sense to let Mathematica format it and then spit it out as images.