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What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
by adiM 13y ago
What is the advantage of rendering math as images when Mathjax works reasonably well on all modern browsers.
- lutusp 13y agoI agree. MathJax renders this both pointless and outdated. All my recent articles use MathJax and I wouldn't dream of going back to graphics for equation rendering.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoDon't be mean. Calling someone's work "pointless and outdated" when they were looking forward to featuring it on HN is just brutal.
- lutusp 13y ago> Calling someone's work "pointless and outdated" when they were looking forward to featuring it on HN is just brutal. Yes, like reality. Maybe the OP will use his natural gifts to think of a way to answer brutality with creativity. That will prepare him for a more direct experience of reality, the kind where people pay you for your work, not because they're compelled to do so, but because they have no choice -- they want what you have, and you deserve to be compensated.
- shadowfox 13y ago> Yes, like reality Somehow everyone thinks their opinion is reality.
- lutusp 13y ago>> Yes, like reality > Somehow everyone thinks their opinion is reality. It's not an opinion. Investors and customers are a better measure of reality than a charitable remark might lead one to believe.
- corey 13y agoThis isn't pointless, as it allows you to easily post latex equations on any site that allows images.
- lutusp 13y agoYes, true, but isn't this project meant to populate a Website's pages with equations? There are any number of easy ways to create equation images solely for export to an image site, example http://arachnoid.com/latex http://arachnoid.com/latex . But populating Web pages for display is a different issue, and the fact that modern browsers allow zooming in and out, essentially ruins the appearance of graphic equations.
- traeblain 13y agoThis would mainly be used for posting to sites that allow images but not custom javascript. If you run your own site and can use MathJax, then you are fine but for others that cannot include the javascript (comments systems, social sites, etc.) this would be a nice alternative.
- zachlatta 13y agoMathjax is great when applicable. My team and I built texit to allow us to take notes in Markdown, rather than writing them in pure LaTeX.
- mkl 13y agoIPython notebooks already do that, with MathJax, plots, symbolic algebra, and full programming support too. What you've done is neat - I am all in favour of remaking things for fun (working on a grep clone...) - but it does seem like better alternatives already exist.
- L_Rahman 13y agoAs someone who really enjoys taking notes in Markdown, and prefers it over most other alternatives, this is appreciated. Thanks for making this. I look forward to using it in class tomorrow.
- clintonc 13y agohttp://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ may be your best friend, in this case :) Here you can write in markdown and include TeX, thereafter converting to many different formats (using, for example, mimeTeX, MathJax, etc).