What awaits science on the Web?

When I was writing my graduate work in algebra, my supervisor traveled the world, reading his lectures at various universities. He was inconceivable. I sprinkled my work under his leadership, and somehow, I had to send him my thoughts. Normal spoken language was not very suitable for the exchange of purely scientific information, and my manager was interested in the fact that from these our works, ultimately, a publication in a journal would turn out.

In general, I had to write him my thoughts in Knutovsky TeX -e (read in Russian as “those”) and send it .tex files which were then compiled into .dvi (files for viewing device independent), .ps ( PostScript files ) or .pdf ( Portable Document Format files ). All this suffering is due to the fact that scientific journals accept only the .tex format - this is standard and does not accept Microsoft Equations .

The first MathML appeared in 1999, but for mathematicians, so far, nothing has changed radically. All my former colleagues still prefer TeX, especially since: there are a lot of WYCIWYG programs for different platforms; scientific articles, notes, correspondence look elegant, beautiful ; still in the world is important , namely, the printed scientific literature .
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Such literature must be black and white , and be easy to read (so that the eye does not irritate the character, which is even a millimeter shifted). In solid scientific literature, sometimes you have half a day to think about a paragraph of text to form your opinion, to understand, to realize it, and that is why the layout of science must be flawless.

Example : 1) look at any of Nikola Tesla's patents from the end of the nineteenth century - this is a creation, layout that you want to insert into a frame and hang on the wall, 2) an example of a mat. Wikipedia articles where the text and formulas are not one, and 3) any PDF received from their TeX is an elegantly composed document.

I am by no means hacking Wikipedia, just today exact sciences on the Internet look very mediocre. As far as I know, there are no simple tools for creating and editing general scientific works, or for maintaining scientific blogs. The most “enjoyable” format for reading has been PDF for many years. Vector formats on the Internet have not been widely used enough, although for books, it is almost “obligatory”.

Here I am not limited to math or physics . There is chemistry with terrible benzene rings; biology with DNA schemes; chess , the last books, remained, probably, in the 80s, and the static from the web, is supplanted by flash; circuit design ; musical scores or finger placement on the neck of the guitar ; even origami , most of them are manuscript scans. (I may not be aware of something) And of course, every craftsman draws well-known characters in his own way, so the scientific web does not look ascetic and neat, but rather is full of colors and fonts.

At one time I was a fan of XML, only because of the flexibility of this format, because of the existence of XPath , XSL-FO , RenderX technology. In MathML, I'm starting to get frustrated, because The format war in the scientific community is not won by W3C , but by Adobe .