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I've compiled a neat little comparison on what math in Markdown can and can't do on different platforms. TLDR: Don't use GitHub if you're serious.

An interesting take, thanks for the input! As a layman (pretty much), I had always a bit frowned upon reST since I never got used to syntax. That was probably because Markdown was …

This is great news! It's not working for me quite yet, but I'm refreshing my browser every 5 minutes. Next stop: Proper inline math.

The big advantage of using code blocks is that is guarantees that their sanitizer doesn't mess with the contents. This is a pretty big plus. Also, you can of course still have merm…

I agree: If you're choosing dollar signs for your math delimiters, you can't expect them to work as regular dollar signs anymore; just like backticks. > sounds like the parsing ope…

Probably pandoc protects whatever is inside $...$ or $$...$$. GitHub doesn't. I would be curious to know how pandoc handles the other failing cases.

Well, it _is_ (La)TeX syntax. With the exception that there, if you want a dollar sign, you have to type \$. But yeah, the syntax isn't made for Markdown.

In May, GitHub added native math support. Unfortunately, it left lots to be desired. Six weeks later, I'm taking another look. Have the major issues been fixed? (Spoiler: No.)

It was actually a config issue that they fixed now. Some issues remains, but mostly on MathJax's side (e.g., https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/2877 ).

Author here. Thanks for the comment! The main problems pointed out in the blog post are problems in _parsing_ the Markdown+TeX pages. The output could be MathML indeed, but this is…

Author here. That is interesting! Have you tried it on the examples in the blog post? I'd be curious to see.

Author here. I've been a managing editor for scientific journals for a number of years, and I can tell that -- while $ is still popular -- (almost) nobody uses $$ anymore. So I wou…

The difference between GitHub and pandoc with GitHub-flavored Markdown as input is that pandoc doesn't sanitize as aggressively as GitHub does. For example, pandoc doesn't remove t…

Author here. Thanks for all the great input! I don't mean to argue for \(...\) and \[...\] in Markdown; it was just a side note I had added to satisfy the LaTeX purists such as mys…

Author here. You're right, the big dreams always turn out smaller in real life when they come true, right? I'm hoping that the popularity of GitHub will aid a shift of publication …

Author here. One problems is that the parser doesn't work harder yet, and it will be difficult even for GitHub to make it so. The $-syntax is familiar to TeXies indeed, but if the …

Author here. Thanks for the hint! I had indeed overlooked that. I have updated the article accordingly.

Author here. The main idea of using code blocks for math is to protect its content from being messed with. Markdown parsers do that by default, so that's how it's "natural". As you…

Blog post author here. The kerning is probably a problem with their font config that can hopefully be fixed. I don't think -- and that's me personal estimation -- that people will …

Author here. > Did Github ever solicit feedback from the community for this feature? Was there ever a beta before they rolled it out? There actually was a closed preview for this, …

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tiptop stands on the shoulders of giants here. Textual (for displaying) and psutil (for fetching the data) do a great job, and tiptop's job is more or less down to intercepting som…