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Finally!
I know, I've been waiting so long for this! I will not miss having to render and reference pngs of equations / api requests.
Finally a long-awaited feature. Works nicely in dark mode too. However, it simply uses MathJax. Also there are some minor annoyances. For example you need to escape the backslashes, so it takes 4 backslashes to make a newline in your matrix. $$\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d\end{bmatrix}$$ I found that the inline math doesn't quite match the font size of the surrounding text too (it's smaller).
> $$\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d\end{bmatrix}$$
This example doesn't make sense. You need to escape the backslashes in the end-of-row command \\, but you don't need to escape the backslashes in \begin and \end?
The post clearly shows that backslashes in \left, \right, \sum, and \sqrt do not need to be escaped. What's different about \\?
Nice! A welcome addition! Too bad they're not using KaTeX [0] instead. It renders the maths server-side, so there's no runtime needed. An additional bonus is that the resulting math is copy-pasteable, which in the case of disply math might not be that useful (since most equations are to complex to be meaningfully copy-pasted with unicode), but it helps from inline math dissappearing when copy pasting texts. But, that…
Original page (compressed): 10 kB
Page with server-rendered Katex (compressed): 50 kB
Katex.js (compressed): 80 kB
So after two pages it’s a net win to not render the mathematics server-side.
Nice! A welcome addition! Too bad they're not using KaTeX [0] instead. It renders the maths server-side, so there's no runtime needed. An additional bonus is that the resulting math is copy-pasteable, which in the case of disply math might not be that useful (since most equations are to complex to be meaningfully copy-pasted with unicode), but it helps from inline math dissappearing when copy pasting texts. But, that…
They do, accessibility being one of them. Rendering math in the way you describe makes it difficult, or impossible, to understand for all sorts of audiences, including those relying on screen reading software.
Finally a long-awaited feature. Works nicely in dark mode too. However, it simply uses MathJax. Also there are some minor annoyances. For example you need to escape the backslashes, so it takes 4 backslashes to make a newline in your matrix. $$\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d\end{bmatrix}$$ I found that the inline math doesn't quite match the font size of the surrounding text too (it's smaller).
> For example you need to escape the backslashes, so it takes 4 backslashes to make a newline in your matrix. > $$\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d\end{bmatrix}$$ This example doesn't make sense. You need to escape the backslashes in the end-of-row command \\, but you don't need to escape the backslashes in \begin and \end? The post clearly shows that backslashes in \left, \right, \sum, and \sqrt do not need to be esc…
That said, \\begin renders the same as \begin.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For example you need to escape the backslashes, so it takes 4 backslashes to make a newline in your matrix. > $$\begin{bmatrix} a & b \\\\ c & d\end{bmatrix}$$ This example doesn't make sense. You need to escape the backslashes in the end-of-row command \\, but you don't need to escape the backslashes in \begin and \end? The post clearly shows that backslashes in \left, \right, \sum, and \sqrt do not need to be esc…
No idea, but if you have only two backslashes instead of four, the matrix would appear as a single row, like [a bc d]. That said, \\begin renders the same as \begin.
Math doesn't render inside a bullet list item. I don't know how to file an issue against Github itself, somewhat ironically.