Mathjax

#1

Post by christopherolah » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 6:52 PM UTC

Mathjax
mathjax.com

Re: Mathjax

#2

Post by christopherolah » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 6:55 PM UTC

This came up on the sage (FOSS alternative to Mathematica and freinds) mailing lists and I thought I'd post it here.

It always surprises me how difficult math on the Internet has turned out to be. Hopefully this can help...

Re: Mathjax

#3

Post by jwr » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 7:47 PM UTC

We've been using jsMath on our FogBugz wiki internally for a while now. I'm very glad this is going mainstream. It's a lifesaver for companies that use wikis and do math.

Re: Mathjax

#4

Post by wkdown » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 7:51 PM UTC

503 ... anyone have a mirror?

Re: Mathjax

#5

Post by christopherolah » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 8:03 PM UTC

wkdown wrote: post #4

503 ... anyone have a mirror?

It's fine for me, but you can always use the Google cache: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Xm1IG5QALKUJ:www.mathjax...

Re: Mathjax

#6

Post by christopherolah » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 8:04 PM UTC

It would be neat if we could use something like this to render equations on HN...

Re: Mathjax

#7

Post by andreyf » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 8:32 PM UTC

Neat! But... Mathjax - Math JavaScript and XML?

Re: Mathjax

#8

Post by pmichaud » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 8:38 PM UTC

This is really impressive-looking. I have at least one site that would benefit from this big time.

Re: Mathjax

#9

Post by snewe » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 9:15 PM UTC

If you have a wordpress blog, wordpress.com will convert your latex to images using this plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-latex/

Re: Mathjax

#10

Post by nanexcool » Tue, Dec 15, 2009, 9:17 PM UTC

Tab is crashing on Google Chrome 4.0.266.0 on Ubuntu.