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I would be interested to know whether a version of the TeX typesetting program could be implemented in WebGL or some appropriate tool.

I have been seeing a lot more HTML5 demos with unusual placement of fonts and text. So it seems a no-brainer to port TeX to the browser (for many years this was considered impossible for some reason)

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Memory available to the browser was limited, sub-pixel rendering was impractical. There is a commercial product 'MathType' that uses TeX to render beautiful mathematics on web pages but I don't know if they have a WebGL version or not.

If you read Don Knuth's book on TeX you can probably figure out how to make it run.

I will at least look at Knuth's book, though I doubt I will be able to make it work!

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