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  • I am curious, if there is any library for inline formula like KaTeX, but supporting Typst syntax?
    by stared
  • It may or may not be as fast, but MathJax has broader support for LaTeX features, better accessibility features, and has slightly better typography in my very subjective opinion, and that's more important to me than a bit of rendering time.
    by creata
  • I wish there was a native version of this. Every SSG seems to have the problem of having to depend on node in order to prerender html for math with katex.
    by sureglymop
  • Also see Temml, a fork of KaTeX that compiles to MathML instead of styled HTML.

    https://temml.org/

    by xigoi
  • I think the latest version of MathJax (v4) has rendering speed comparable to, if not faster than, KaTeX. It also looks (subjectively) significantly better than KaTeX, and supports a wide array of accessibility features.
    by subset
  • As a very much work-in-progress, yesterday, I started working on interactive equations https://p.migdal.pl/equations-explained-colorfully/ (it uses KaTeX under the hood).

    The idea is similar to https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation..., but with mouseover interaction (both for further description, but also for accessibility). For a deeper dive in the topic of explorable explanations, I wrote https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2024/05/science-games-explorable-ex... (was here on the HN as well).

    by stared
  • I switched from MathJax to KaTeX earlier this year for my blog. So far, it has been working out well.

    The only feature I really missed was the ability to use \label and \eqref for equation referencing, since KaTeX doesn't support these commands [1]. I worked around this limitation with a small custom setup defining my own \label and a custom \eqnref (not exactly \eqref though) [2].

    Another thing that bothered me a little was that the KaTeX autorender extension does not recognise \begin{align*}, \begin{alignat*}, etc. as top-level delimiters by default [3] but this was trivial to fix by customising the set of default delimiters [2].

    I know KaTeX supports server-side rendering but I don't use that yet [4]. I still use client-side rendering. Despite that my maths pages [5][6] render quickly since they are usually small, with only a single reflow from the initial load to the rendered page, without the continual reflows or jitter I used to see with MathJax. Overall, I am quite happy with the switch from MathJax to KaTeX.

    [1] https://katex.org/docs/supported.html

    [2] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/blob/0.3.0/layout/include...

    [3] https://katex.org/docs/autorender#api

    [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615271

    [5] https://susam.net/mutually-attacking-knights.html

    [6] https://susam.net/zigzag-number-spiral.html

    by susam
  • Does anyone know why Google doesn’t adopt something like this in Google Docs / Slides? It’s amazing to me that after all these years Google Docs still has some of the worst equation editing of all word processors. I was hopeful when they added markdown support that first class equation editing was near, but it’s been a while now and still nothing.
    by taylorgibson

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