[Tex/LaTex] Best solutions for (La)TeX on Kindle

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I have read Compiling documents online, LaTeX options for kindle?, and some similar Q&A's, but I have more specific question.

What are possible, good solutions for compiling TeX/LaTeX documents from Kindle (3G)? Probably it should be done online. However, Kindle has got some limitations (e.g. bad keyboard, limitations on extensions of loadable files). So which page should be chosen? Or maybe there exists another solution?

Edit (2013-04-08 00:05 CET)
An existing answer gives only general ideas. I hope that there are people with some experience in using mobile devices to TeX & Co. exercises.

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Using this online compiler, the only strict problem I had was the Kindle's refusal to open PDFs online, as you found. It would be fairly simple for someone running a similar site to automate sending an email with the PDF as attachment rather than linking to the attachment direct, and you can set up your Amazon account to deliver PDF attachments to the Kindle. I don't know much about the way Kindles are set up, but if it were possible to bypass that restriction (which, given that Kindles can handle PDFs, and can download other types of files, feels like it should be possible) that would fit the bill.

Having said that, even the almost negligible amount of code I wrote on that site on my Kindle was incredibly laborious; I used my Kindle for internet for several weeks when my laptop broke a few years ago, but the quantity of backslashes and curly brackets needed for LaTeX make Kindles singularly unsuited to the job, in my opinion. Even if you were only editing documents the amount of time it takes to scroll up and down would be maddening.

Here's a plan:

Create a kindle-friendly preamble (or a document class)

Redefine your page geometry to match your screen ratio (geometry package)
Remove most of the margins (also with geometry)
Remove or resize headers and footers (perhaps with fancyhdr)
Enlarge text until it is readable to you (depends on which TeX friend you are using)
Choose appropriate (legible) fonts (depends on which TeX friend you are using)
Redefine you section titles to smaller spacing (titlesec package)
Reduce other spacing as well (various lenghts like \abovecaptionskip)

Don't use absolute sizes in your documents:

Rescale your figures to fit factor\textwidth
Mathematics should automatically break at the end of the line (breqn package might help)

If you didn't create a document class:

Extract your document content (textbody) to a content-file
\include{content-file} after the \begin{document}

If you created a document class, you will just have to change your class before compiling.

Possible result

Kindle pdf result

The figure is the result of the following code:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}      % font selection
\setmainfont{Cambria}
\usepackage{breqn}         % automatic equation breaking
\usepackage{microtype}     % microtypography, reduces hyphenation
\usepackage{polyglossia}   % language selection
\setmainlanguage{english}

\usepackage{graphicx}      % graphics support

\usepackage[font=small,labelformat=simple,]{caption}   % customizing captions

\usepackage{titlesec}      % customizing section titles
\titleformat{\section}{\itshape\large}{}{0em}{}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{8pt}{4pt}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\itshape}{}{0em}{}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{4pt}{2pt}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}[runin]{\bf\scshape}{}{0em}{}
\titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{5pt}{5pt}

\usepackage[papersize={3.6in,4.8in},hmargin=0.1in,vmargin={0.1in,0.1in}]{geometry}  % page geometry

\usepackage{fancyhdr}   % headers and footers
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}            % clear page header
\fancyfoot{}            % clear page footer

\setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{2pt} % space above captions 
\setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{0pt} % space below captions
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{2pt}     % space between last top float or first bottom float and the text
\setlength{\floatsep}{2pt}         % space left between floats
\setlength{\intextsep}{2pt}        % space left on top and bottom of an in-text float

\begin{document}

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

\section{Wonderful section title}

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look 
\begin{figure}[htb]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{alice}
\caption{Quite wide picture, resized to fit}
\end{figure}
about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.

\subsection{Tufte-style subsection}

then she looked at the sides of the well

\subsubsection{Saving space running in} and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book\-shel\-ves. 

\begin{dmath}[label={sna74}]
\frac{1}{6} \left(\sigma(k,h,0) +\frac{3(h-1)}{h}\right)
+\frac{1}{6} \left(\sigma(h,k,0) +\frac{3(k-1)}{k}\right)
=\frac{1}{6} \left(\frac{h}{k} +\frac{k}{h} +\frac{1}{hk}\right)
+\frac{1}{2} -\frac{1}{2h} -\frac{1}{2k},
\end{dmath}

\end{document}

Different font sizes can be easily selected using fontspec.

[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX math textbook conversion to ebook/Kindle

The following:

Print Replica: This Kindle book looks just like the printed book Available only on Kindle Fire Tablets, iPad, Android Tablets, PC and Mac

suggests that it is PDF not AZW or MOBI.

And a good preview of math documents... Not on any 6" display. Well, I use it sometimes, but it really painfull.

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