[Caml-list] How can I use mathematics with omd's markdown

[Caml-list] How can I use mathematics with omd's markdown

[Hendrik Boom]

Evidently it's possible to use mathematicl notation with omd.

Ths issue

https://github.com/ocaml/omd/issues/107

contains some clues how to do it.  But when I do it, all I get is the 
Latex code in the webpage.

Not surprising, because it says that mathjax will further convert it, 
and I haven't invoked mathjax nor do I know how.

I this something that has to be specified on the omd command -- 
presumably some pre or post processor?

Or is there some other mechanism to do the remaining translation?

-- hendrik 

Re: [Caml-list] How can I use mathematics with omd's markdown

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 03:29:49PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Evidently it's possible to use mathematicl notation with omd.
> 
> Ths issue
> 
> https://github.com/ocaml/omd/issues/107
> 
> contains some clues how to do it.  But when I do it, all I get is the 
> Latex code in the webpage.
> 
> Not surprising, because it says that mathjax will further convert it, 
> and I haven't invoked mathjax nor do I know how.
> 
> I this something that has to be specified on the omd command -- 
> presumably some pre or post processor?
> 
> Or is there some other mechanism to do the remaining translation?

Partial solution:

I have to prepend the following to the generated html file:

<script type="text/javascript" async
  src="https://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-MML-AM_CHTML">
</script>

If I do this, both forms mentioned in issue 107 work, but the one with 
the double dollar signs works without the extra backslashes, and is 
*much* more readable in the source code.

Is there some way to get omd to prefix that script to its output, os do 
I have to send it into a temporary file and prepend it with the cat 
shell command?

-- hendrik