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Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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What do you mean? At https://josephernest.github.io/writing/ it includes cmunrm.otf: @font-face { font-family: texroman; src: url(cmunrm.otf); /* https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/267197/27733 */ } And a spot check of some of symbols in the rendered math seems to prove it is Computer Modern. Funnily for me, just today I was telling a colleague how I'm happy to see math textbooks that aren't in Computer Modern.

I see this: https://imgur.com/a/vvYpW The symbols and letters are so wrong. Inspecting the element shows that the font family is STIXGeneral. On the other hand I find it amusing that an editor that purports to be "distraction-free" uses fake italics (known as \textsl in LaTeX) who are incredibly distracting to me. It also uses fake bold but at least that's slightly more tolerable. Look if you want things to be both m…

I see CM myself. Perhaps STIX is in your cache or installed locally, since MathJax makes some attempt not to download fonts.
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