Re:Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by forgotpwd16 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:41PM
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>What I’m advocating here is that GitHub translates TeX to MathML on their servers and serve us the MathML
I see. What confused me was the "options aren’t just MathJax and KaTeX, but also raw MathML" since those tools can be used server-side and they output some HTML or MathML or images. MathJax moreover besides TeX also takes MathML and AsciiMath input.
>Another benefit is that you could allow us to include the pure MathML
I guess they went with what most people work with since rendering TeX in Markdown complements their Jupyter notebook rendering.
>and if they did write it by hand it would be written as
Maybe. I copied my example from MDN docs git repo.
I see. What confused me was the "options aren’t just MathJax and KaTeX, but also raw MathML" since those tools can be used server-side and they output some HTML or MathML or images. MathJax moreover besides TeX also takes MathML and AsciiMath input.
>Another benefit is that you could allow us to include the pure MathML
I guess they went with what most people work with since rendering TeX in Markdown complements their Jupyter notebook rendering.
>and if they did write it by hand it would be written as
Maybe. I copied my example from MDN docs git repo.