Including SVG graphics into LaTeX documents.

The epub book format relies on XHTML / HTML / and MathML for converting from a page-based book like .pdf format or .dvi format into a scaled free-flowing page that can make for reading on a phone, tablet, or any size screen.

I am working on converting my book into XHTML with nice looking graphics.  The first attempts to make a .epub from .pdf caused a mess of a book.  The symbols go all over the page when they aren't locked into position.

The way I solved this was to convert all math equations into graphics - inline and display formulas - and then reinclude graphics into the .tex file rather than equations.

I found the svg package that acts like the graphicsx allowing you to

  \includesvg[<options>]{<svg filename>}

include svg image directly.

You can find the svg package on CTAN here  

For Ubuntu and Fedora,  this BASH shellscript should install and reconfigure texmf 

#!/bin/sh
# svg standard install script
# must be run inside the top  svg directory
# must be run as root or sudo root

mkdir /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/svg
cp -rf * /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/svg


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