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What 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.
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> Calling someone's work "pointless and outdated" when they were looking forward to featuring it on HN is just brutal. Yes, like reality. Maybe the OP will use his natural gifts to think of a way to answer brutality with creativity. That will prepare him for a more direct experience of reality, the kind where people pay you for your work, not because they're compelled to do so, but because they have no choice -- they…
> Yes, like reality Somehow everyone thinks their opinion is reality.
> Somehow everyone thinks their opinion is reality.
It's not an opinion. Investors and customers are a better measure of reality than a charitable remark might lead one to believe.
PS: It's $\LaTeX$, using $word$ is always wrong. And axis labes x and y should be in math italics.
Anyway it's just plain ugly, different fonts, formulae jumping from baseline etc. Use mathjax
This is good! Would be great if it supports somehow retina display, maybe returning 2x size? Good job!
We're experimenting with SVG support. As long as you're not specifying an extension when linking to texit, you should automatically be switched over to SVGs once they're implemented.
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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)
Why not use the MathJaX CDN directly?
I even wrote an IDE (basically stolen from MathOverflow) to type markdown and have it render on the web. Sacrifice control of paragraph sizing etc.
Example:
- http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\displaystyle%20w_{a,...
- or a simpler one: http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\frac{\pi}{2}&bg=ffff...