MathJax VS pandoc

As others have pointed out Obsidian is using MathJaX, which is a custom implementation of a subset of TeX. It doesn't support Tikz, which is way different from the equation subset of TeX, but there is a discussion here: https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/41

Nice. Almost what I want: simplicity, images (for plots), and no adds or tracking. However, I want to author pages on optics, and I want to use MathJax (https://www.mathjax.org/) for equations. Please let me know how I might use MathJax with Mataroa if I've misunderstood. Or, please suggest something similar that supports MathJax. Rolling my own static site (as many NH postings describe) is enticing but beyond my ability. I am not a Web programmer, and Mataroa's simplicity is perfect for me.

I am using https://www.mathjax.org/ for learning math. Is there any library for CLJS that can do math notation/writing like this library does?

Obsidian uses a subset of LaTeX, and it's meant only to typeset some relatively basic maths. It does this using MathJax. Here's the list of supported commands and environments.

I think my current pet peeve is LaTeX's fixed output. I've been a (La)TeX user for 30+ years, starting off with plain TeX and Knuth's "The TeXbook", followed by Lamport's book on LaTeX. But I wonder whether its day is past. So much of my writing now is read online that I look for publishing solutions that have flexible outputs: the LaTeX -> PDF road, although my go-to for years, simply doesn't cut it any more. People read my stuff online, on computers, tablets, mobile phones of all sorts of sizes and orientations, that a fixed page like PDF has become more of a liability. So I'm moving away from "pure" LaTeX to org-mode with export to HTML, and using MathJax for the equations, and something like JSXGraph for (interactive) diagrams.

Thanks a lot! I see now, I am able to reproduce the issue if I go into chrome://flags, search for "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents", and select "Enabled with simple HSL-based inversion". Just choosing "Enabled" seemed to break the LaTeX entirely. (Please let me know if that isn't roughly what you did)

I don't know how I'll fix this (I've never really debugged mobile web specific stuff before), but I'll look into it this weekend.

There must be a way to fix it, since I don't see the issue when going to https://www.mathjax.org/#demo and entering something like this: $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$$

LaTeX equation display uses MathJax in a webview.

tag if I copy-pasted that directly. Also, I don't manually add every tag - I have a script that adds them to each line, and does a few other things (although I was recently told about pandoc which is a tool that can convert pretty much any document type to any other, including html and has made my script obsolete!).

For me, I exported from OneNote and then used pandoc to convert to markdown (PDF and docx source files worked for me).

I write my books using Markdown. Using a tool called Pandoc you can convert Markdown files into PDF's and Epub files. Lets take a look at the commands.

It seems there's a tool called pandoc which can, among other things, convert rich text formats (odt, docx) to HTML.

I just wrote a simple Pandoc filter that renders LaTeX fragments in markdown with just LaTeX itself over the past weekend. I intend to use it for my blog but it's probably also worth sharing.

I would just write in markdown and convert with Pandoc. Then double check the output with a word processor. LibreOffice. WPS. Google Docs. Office.com. Whatever. If that one teacher doesn't have any special formatting or feature requirements, pretty much any word processor will do.

Regardless of the minimal risk that this particular office file exploit has on LibreOffice users, it is always a good idea to be cautious opening files from unknown third parties. You can use an online service like Google Docs or Outlook Online to preview these documents and download them as a PDF file, or convert the file to a harmless format like plain text (.txt) or a mostly harmless format like Markdown (.md) or MediaWiki (.wiki) using a local installation of the Pandoc document convertor.

If you’re desperate to avoid a formal word processor and LaTeX, you could use pandoc, and write your document in markdown, asciidoc, html, roff; among other formats. But you’d still have to learn some kind of markup to add formatting.

FWIW, Pandoc pairs pretty nicely with Vim. When I was using VimWiki, I had a Rakefile that would compile all my markdown notes into HTML based on a Bootstrap template file.

That said, if you're working in a technical academic field, LaTeX is worth learning. For conversion, while there are other options, these days, pandoc probably gives the best results. But the results are pretty much never perfect, and to fix the problems, you'll need to know some LaTeX. Some learning resources include the not so short introduction, which you can read in a couple hours, as well as learnlatex.org's tutorials, and Overleaf's documentation (though I don't recommend using Overleaf itself).