Franklin.jl VS markdown-it-texmath

A few weeks ago I discovered Franklin.jl ([0], [1]). It has direct KaTeX support and I've been pleased with the results. There is no need for adding or tweaking things unlike Jekyll or Hugo. And KaTeX is faster than MathJax in general.

[0] https://0x0f0f0f.github.io/blog/newblog/

[1] https://franklinjl.org/

Awesome resource

The website is built in julia with https://github.com/tlienart/Franklin.jl, Cool!

Would be interesting to have it teach DL in Julia as well.

Github's implementation is really lazy. There are many much better approaches to precisely this problem. E.g., Jupyter notebooks implement one that has matured in the wild over a decade. There's this very flexible markdown-it plugin that implements anther https://github.com/goessner/markdown-it-texmath, and my version of it here https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/blob/master/src/packag... which I rewrote in typescript with a focus on the same semantics as Jupyter has, but for CoCalc, and I've been working on using unifiedjs to provide more general latex for Markdown (not just formulas) here https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/pull/5982 Parsing math is much easier if you use a plugin to an existing markdown parser, rather than trying to do some hack outside of that (which is what Github probably does, and also what Jupyter does).

If you use a proper markdown plugin to parse math instead (such as https://github.com/goessner/markdown-it-texmath), then the problems pointed out in this blog post go away.