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

[Felix Breuer]

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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