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No xy support yet...
I've never heard of this before, could you let me know what it is?
Support for tikz would be great, too.
More broadly: great project! Looks to bring us closer to the day when math on the web is easy and just works.
If you don't mind me asking, can you say why you didn't work with MathJax, and decided to start over?
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So is your goal to be a faster MathJax-compatible alternative? We currently use MathJax, but there's definitely a need for faster rendering. As an example, we sometimes run a page load through wkhtmltopdf, and MathJax content can take a LONG time EDIT: Thanks for replying to my comment in spite of the downvotes
Yep, that's our goal. Khan Academy does a bunch of math rendering, and our exercises were suffereing because of it. Hopefully some time we'll be able to stop using MathJax.
This looks really nice. Are there any handwriting recognition projects for being able to write on a wacom tablet that could output to a format like this? That was always my dream when doing homework at the university.
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Unfortunately, we're not. We might support that in the future though.
Very cool anyway. Because you are just using CSS instead of the DOM trickery of MathJax I should still be able to use it for my purposes.
https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/blob/master/src/fontMetrics.js
and the "make metrics" Makefile rule. We haven't added the ability to swap font metrics at runtime or to easily build a version with different metrics but I'm not opposed to the idea.
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I've never heard of this before, could you let me know what it is?
Probably: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xypic Support for tikz would be great, too. More broadly: great project! Looks to bring us closer to the day when math on the web is easy and just works. If you don't mind me asking, can you say why you didn't work with MathJax, and decided to start over?
As for why we didn't work with MathJax, this started out as more of an internal project for making our own math fast, and has slowly built up to what we have today.
We also didn't think that we could get the speed we wanted while still supporting all of the obscure features MathJax does (like SVG rendering).
Looks great! Will KaTeX support (c.q. integrate with) ASCIIMathML.js¹,²? AsciiMath is dubbed “TeX without backslashes”, or as “markdown for math”.³ (La)TeX input can become laborious, and the syntax gets difficultly readable, very rapidly. With AsciiMath syntax⁴ (and Unicode!⁵) you can write δA instead of `\delta A`, ½ instead of `\frac{1}{2}`, ((a,b),(c,d)) instead of `\begin{pmatrix}a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}`, &…
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Yep, that's our goal. Khan Academy does a bunch of math rendering, and our exercises were suffereing because of it. Hopefully some time we'll be able to stop using MathJax.
Well you've convinced me. I'm gonna go ahead and download it now and try to use it everywhere MathJax is used. If it works with what we have I might be able to sell this to my bosses
Props to the coders for improving upon the LaTeX/Web use case space, but I can't help but feel something other than LaTeX is going to be necessary for the internet. LaTeX was fundamentally about document-level typesetting, and the internet is fundamentally not a place where that happens.