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Wrong. As the article states, MathJax has nothing to do with Markdown. Never did. For that matter, neither did KaTeX. It just inteprets text some grammar parse
by joesuf4 4mo ago
Wrong. As the article states, MathJax has nothing to do with Markdown. Never did. For that matter, neither did KaTeX. It just inteprets text some grammar parser delivers to it and delivers MathML.
The embrace and extend problem appears when you incorporate LaTeX’s grammar into Markdown.
- joesuf4 4mo agoPerhaps I should say syntax, but really how are you supposed to know what is meant when someone writes $1.50, $2.00 or $\text{more}$.
- joesuf4 4mo agoBesides, nobody gives a crap about Wikipedia file formats. They are not specs that others may implement independently. GFM is a spec, not a vendor format.
- applicative 4mo agooriginal gruber-swartz markdown has no spec, just perl program with many comical corner cases.
- joesuf4 4mo agoThe spec is linked to in the article. Do you know how to click on a link, or do you use Braille?
- flexagoon 4mo agoThat is an overview of the syntax the program supports. It's not even remotely a formal specification.
- joesuf4 4mo agoYawn.
- applicative 4mo agothere is absolutely no specification. one who thinks there is has no idea what such words actually mean. thousands have burned their brains on this question
- joesuf4 4mo agoThere is absolutely no point to your post. We are discussing GFM, which is also linked to in the article you didn't read.
- applicative 4mo agoIts good they cancelled this thread. In fact I read the post, which shows you are completely ignorant of the history of markdowns and the various basically scientific problems they have posed. Thus e.g. commonmark, the basis of gfm, was devised in consortium between github, pandoc (whose author composed the specification) and assorted other well known markdowns.
- joesuf4 4mo agoOk, sycophant