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

[MinRK]

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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