[IPython-dev] KaTeX (alternative to mathjax?)

[Aaron Meurer]

Does anyone know of any pages comparing rendering output of KaTeX and MathJax?

And yes, it apparently does lack support for things like
\begin{anything} and even some symbols like \nabla, so I would hold
out on replacing it outright, although I imagine you may want to
eventually allow to choose it as an alternate backend to MathJax.

Aaron Meurer

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Felix Breuer <felix at fbreuer.de> wrote:
> KaTeX does not support matrices, arrays, etc. Also, MathJax will see speed
> improvements in the next release. See
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mathjax-users/vStfa_uxbCk/discussion
>
> -- Felix
>
>
>
> On 16 Sep 2014, at 21:12, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's definitely exciting, but we should be a bit conservative and watch how
> it goes for a bit before adopting it. Large book-style notebooks definitely
> observer slow mathax, especially on nbviewer.
>
> -MinRK
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Andrew Gibiansky
> <andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have some questions that are not answered well on that page:
>>
>> Is the only advantage over MathJax speed? If so, the fact that IPython
>> notebooks are typically used in cells reduces the usefulness somewhat, as I
>> usually only need to revaluate smallish cells. (Of course, maybe using this
>> for nbconvert output would be useful....)
>> Does it render all of the same code as MathJax would? e.g. do things like
>> \begin{align*} ... \end{align*} still work?
>> Are there things that KaTeX does that MathJax does not, besides speed?
>>
>> I think these questions would be important to answer before using it.
>>
>> -- Andrew
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://khan.github.io/KaTeX/
>>>
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