But in many cases GIFs may be more convenient also for tables. HTML does provide escape sequences for some special characters. The following is a partial list. Click here for a full list. For example, a paper formatted using HTML with hyperlinks directly to other manuscripts or Internet resources, should have a cover page that references only the HTML documents included in the publication.
Most word processors can output a postscript file.
The advantage of postscript is that everything on the printed page can be faithfully reproduced. Thus there are no problems with equations or any type of text formatting. There are several disadvantages. You cannot embed hypertext links. There does not appear to exist a compatible public domain postscript viewer for the Macintosh.