Good to know... maybe I'll get around to making the math rendering 
configurable in the future... first a few other things to do!


On Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 10:31:06 PM UTC+1, Kolen Cheung wrote:
>
> There are a tons of things I used in MathJax that aren't supported in 
> KaTeX, nor pandoc in general. This is one of the problem I experienced when 
> writing Math in pandoc.
>
> To name a few, all those environments supported in MathJax (such as align, 
> aligned, case, etc.), and then I even wrote a physics package in MathJax 
> (which is another source of problem since it is not trivial to configure 
> MathJax in pandoc, default template causes problems.)
>
> I'm using pandoc with MathJax as engine to render in Marked 2, I don't 
> recall it has significant lag. But I'm not sure since this set up is 
> relatively new and haven't worked on lengthy Math document on it yet.
>
> I guess the trick Marked 2 is doing is essentially taking a diff. between 
> the original generated HTML and the newly generated HTML and do something 
> about it such that the preview is very stable (no flickering) and will 
> stick to the "last edit" location. I've used MultiMarkdown for that in the 
> past and the preview often jumped.
>
> I'm also thinking about the packaging stradegy of LaTeX macros. The 
> physics package in MathJax is good, except that setting it up is a barrier. 
> I'm thinking about putting all of them in a text file (like a style file or 
> a package) and include it using either a filter or makefile. But doing so 
> would mean it is difficult to get it working in something like PanWriter 
> which might not parse the LaTeX macros.
>
> MathJax did it (parsing macros) but it is annoying that pandoc and MathJax 
> expects a different syntax. In pandoc macros are bare, without delimiter, 
> but in MathJax they have to be put in delimiters.
>
> There's a lot of random thoughts above but I guess the point is yes I need 
> MathJax, but even so it doesn't solve all the problems.
>
>

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