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This just embeds an image from a third-party commercial service https://latex.codecogs.com/ https://latex.codecogs.com/. I don’t think this is a good idea. The

by oefrha 5y ago

This just embeds an image from a third-party commercial service https://latex.codecogs.com/ https://latex.codecogs.com/. I don’t think this is a good idea. The “Buy Now” link on that site even 404s; I seriously doubt the longevity of that service. Just use Pandoc with good old KaTeX or MathJax. The CDN builds will last way longer than this commercial service, and you have the option of self-hosting everything. Edit: I didn't see the author's comment here. Apparently it's meant for environments where you aren't allowed to include your own JavaScript. In that case it's probably a good idea to prerender the images and include them alongside if you can.

bachmeier 5y ago
These days it's becoming standard for any markdown converter to support katex/mathjax. For instance, markdown-it has markdown-it-katex. Dump your markdown with equations directly inside your html file and have it do the conversion. Or this: https://github.com/susam/texme https://github.com/susam/texme
- 8HoLoN 5y ago
  Does it work on Github markdown ? (I made the tool back in 2019 mainly because I couldn't render latex in the render of the readme.md on Github)
  - oefrha 5y ago
    Not really, LaTeX is only supported in ipynb on GitHub AFAIK. The submission title is too generic though.
  - susam 5y ago
    Hello! I am the author of TeXMe[1]. Congratulations on launching a working project and running it successfully for the past few years. It is always nice to see new projects pertaining to rendering mathematics on the web. TeXMe does support GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)[2] when used in standalone HTML files. It however does not support your use case of rendering equations in GitHub README.md files. If TeXMe seems interesting, I would also request you to take a look at Muboard[4] which is a live, interactive, self-rendering mathematics chalkboard for the web built with TeXMe.[4] [1] https://github.com/susam/texme https://github.com/susam/texme [2] https://github.github.com/gfm https://github.github.com/gfm [3] https://spec.commonmark.org/ https://spec.commonmark.org/ [4] https://muboard.net/ https://muboard.net/
    - 8HoLoN 5y ago
      Hi, I saw textme uses html and imports js, but does this work in static .md (to be parsed by Github as README.md) ? I only saw .html example in the docs.
chrisfinazzo 5y ago
When I converted my CV from Word back in 2013, I went straight to Tex. A local install of MacTex or BasicTex will outlast all of this and works entirely offline from the start. If I hadn't gotten so far along with my conversion, I might have even dropped down to groff/troff and used TeX as an intermediate step.
- susam 5y ago
  That's precisely what I did too about a decade or so ago when I decided to move away from Microsoft Word to write my CV. I used LaTeX. Back then I began using strictly free and open source software only, so I usually had texlive-latex-installed on my Debian GNU/Linux systems to compile my CV. These days, I just use BasicTeX on macOS.
  - chrisfinazzo 5y ago
    Although the (relative) FOSS benefits are nice, that wasn't the real reason I switched. At the time, Office for Mac 2008 was going EOL, so this wasn't the best option and whispers had already surfaced that future versions would be subscription-only unless you were in an enterprise environment. Going this route, you eventually end up paying more than MSRP, which feels icky. As to why I didn't start from groff/toff - the original was done in Word, so I tried to keep a similar format and to get there required a few custom classes that would be a real pain to reproduce. I considered just using HTML with the print media type, but @page was new then, still isn't uniformly supported, and is basically absent in WebKit. All told, it probably took 2 weeks - asking silly questions on TeX Exchange and tweaking things - before I got something that I was happy with.

by oefrha 5y ago

bachmeier 5y ago

These days it's becoming standard for any markdown converter to support katex/mathjax. For instance, markdown-it has markdown-it-katex. Dump your markdown with equations directly inside your html file and have it do the conversion. Or this: https://github.com/susam/texme https://github.com/susam/texme

8HoLoN 5y ago
Does it work on Github markdown ? (I made the tool back in 2019 mainly because I couldn't render latex in the render of the readme.md on Github)
- oefrha 5y ago
  Not really, LaTeX is only supported in ipynb on GitHub AFAIK. The submission title is too generic though.
- susam 5y ago
  Hello! I am the author of TeXMe[1]. Congratulations on launching a working project and running it successfully for the past few years. It is always nice to see new projects pertaining to rendering mathematics on the web. TeXMe does support GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)[2] when used in standalone HTML files. It however does not support your use case of rendering equations in GitHub README.md files. If TeXMe seems interesting, I would also request you to take a look at Muboard[4] which is a live, interactive, self-rendering mathematics chalkboard for the web built with TeXMe.[4] [1] https://github.com/susam/texme https://github.com/susam/texme [2] https://github.github.com/gfm https://github.github.com/gfm [3] https://spec.commonmark.org/ https://spec.commonmark.org/ [4] https://muboard.net/ https://muboard.net/
  - 8HoLoN 5y ago
    Hi, I saw textme uses html and imports js, but does this work in static .md (to be parsed by Github as README.md) ? I only saw .html example in the docs.

chrisfinazzo 5y ago

When I converted my CV from Word back in 2013, I went straight to Tex. A local install of MacTex or BasicTex will outlast all of this and works entirely offline from the start. If I hadn't gotten so far along with my conversion, I might have even dropped down to groff/troff and used TeX as an intermediate step.

susam 5y ago
That's precisely what I did too about a decade or so ago when I decided to move away from Microsoft Word to write my CV. I used LaTeX. Back then I began using strictly free and open source software only, so I usually had texlive-latex-installed on my Debian GNU/Linux systems to compile my CV. These days, I just use BasicTeX on macOS.
- chrisfinazzo 5y ago
  Although the (relative) FOSS benefits are nice, that wasn't the real reason I switched. At the time, Office for Mac 2008 was going EOL, so this wasn't the best option and whispers had already surfaced that future versions would be subscription-only unless you were in an enterprise environment. Going this route, you eventually end up paying more than MSRP, which feels icky. As to why I didn't start from groff/toff - the original was done in Word, so I tried to keep a similar format and to get there required a few custom classes that would be a real pain to reproduce. I considered just using HTML with the print media type, but @page was new then, still isn't uniformly supported, and is basically absent in WebKit. All told, it probably took 2 weeks - asking silly questions on TeX Exchange and tweaking things - before I got something that I was happy with.