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Re: MathJax

#11

Post by boogies » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

I’m amazed at how well MathJax works in CodiMD/HedgeDoc, not just math, but importing and using eg. chemical equation support (`$\require{mhchem}$`) as well. Kudos.

Re: MathJax

#12

Post by 0-_-0 » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 9:39 PM UTC

orange3xchicken wrote: post #2

If you are at all concerned with performance and can sacrifice a couple features (fewer supported text formatting options & mathematical elements, less legacy support for some browsers). Katex is a great alternative. https://katex.org/

Actually, the recent MathJax 3 is quite fast as you can see in this benchmark:

https://www.intmath.com/cg5/katex-mathjax-comparison.php?pro...

Still not as fast as KaTeX though.

Re: MathJax

#13

Post by hashtagmarkup » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 9:43 PM UTC

I used to use Mathematica or MatLab to export image files of equations or matrices, and embed those images into my papers. I would already have those equations loaded into the software as part of the research, so it really wasn't any extra work, and ensured they were copied over as they were actually used. Why is so much time spent trying to get complex math rendering added to text editors, especially when math research may define new renderings?

/get off my lawn

Re: MathJax

#14

Post by teruakohatu » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 9:52 PM UTC

hashtagmarkup wrote: post #13

I used to use Mathematica or MatLab to export image files of equations or matrices, and embed those images into my papers. I would already have those equations loaded into the software as part of the research, so it really wasn't any extra work, and ensured they were copied over as they were actually used. Why is so much time spent trying to get complex math rendering added to text editors, especially when math resea…

This is a math rendering engine. It has nothing to do with text editors anymore than any other software.

Mathematica can export to Latex which is definitely preferable to embedding images into papers.

Re: MathJax

#15

Post by jimhefferon » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

ampdepolymerase wrote: post #4

MathJax is probably the poster child for Next.js/Gatsby SSR.

What do you mean? I'm not familiar with Gatsby.

Re: MathJax

#16

Post by vbernat » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

orange3xchicken wrote: post #2

If you are at all concerned with performance and can sacrifice a couple features (fewer supported text formatting options & mathematical elements, less legacy support for some browsers). Katex is a great alternative. https://katex.org/

KaTeX can also work without JavaScript as the generated code is browser-independent.

Re: MathJax

#17

Post by ezequiel-garzon » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 11:03 PM UTC

Check out the impressive list of sponsors behind NumFOCUS [1], in turn the main sponsor of MathJax.

[1] https://numfocus.org/

Re: MathJax

#18

Post by applecrazy » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 11:22 PM UTC

jimhefferon wrote: post #15

ampdepolymerase wrote: post #4

MathJax is probably the poster child for Next.js/Gatsby SSR.

What do you mean? I'm not familiar with Gatsby.

I think they're referring to how rendering of equations is a good reason to use SSR, given how slow they render on the client.

Re: MathJax

#19

Post by jlokier » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 11:30 PM UTC

I really enjoyed this interview:

https://mathml.igalia.com/news/2019/12/03/igalia-chats-with-...

It's mostly about MathML implementation in browsers, but a fair amount talks about MathJax as well and how good it is, including for accessibility.

Re: MathJax

#20

Post by lethologica » Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 11:40 PM UTC

compumike wrote: post #7

I use MathJax for rendering equations on https://ultimateelectronicsbook.com/ and it's worked very well from a rendering quality perspective. I looked at Katex for performance, but it didn't support all of the LaTeX formatting that I use. You can scroll through https://ultimateelectronicsbook.com/systems-of-equations/ for a particularly formatting-heavy example with lots of matrix equations and augmented matrices, wo…

Slightly off-topic, but I really like the layout and feel of your website. I find the fonts and colours to be quite pleasing, and the site loads incredibly quickly.