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GIFs in Web Pages

In the past equations generally had to be converted to pictures to put them on the web, this has a number of serious drawbacks:

  • You have to manage a number of image (GIF or PNG) files as well as the HTML page they belong to,
  • The pages look terrible when printed out,
James Currall
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