Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
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Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#2What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#3What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
I agree. MathJax renders this both pointless and outdated. All my recent articles use MathJax and I wouldn't dream of going back to graphics for equation rendering.
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#4What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
This would mainly be used for posting to sites that allow images but not custom javascript. If you run your own site and can use MathJax, then you are fine but for others that cannot include the javascript (comments systems, social sites, etc.) this would be a nice alternative.
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#5What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
Mathjax is great when applicable. My team and I built texit to allow us to take notes in Markdown, rather than writing them in pure LaTeX.
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#6This uses Mathjax: http://www.texpaste.com/
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#7What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
Mathjax is great when applicable. My team and I built texit to allow us to take notes in Markdown, rather than writing them in pure LaTeX.
IPython notebooks already do that, with MathJax, plots, symbolic algebra, and full programming support too. What you've done is neat - I am all in favour of remaking things for fun (working on a grep clone...) - but it does seem like better alternatives already exist.
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#8What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
Mathjax is great when applicable. My team and I built texit to allow us to take notes in Markdown, rather than writing them in pure LaTeX.
As someone who really enjoys taking notes in Markdown, and prefers it over most other alternatives, this is appreciated. Thanks for making this. I look forward to using it in class tomorrow.
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#9Can this be used as a full replacement of Google Chart Tool? [1]
Re: Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web
#10What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
This would mainly be used for posting to sites that allow images but not custom javascript. If you run your own site and can use MathJax, then you are fine but for others that cannot include the javascript (comments systems, social sites, etc.) this would be a nice alternative.
MathJax's HTML+CSS rendering looks much nicer than an image to me. I wish there was a way to run it on an HTML document in a batch fashion. (e.g. for generating an epub file)