UnicodeMathML VS latex-to-html

Both ± and √ have been on Mac keyboards, if you hold down the Option key, since probably 1984. Using ² instead of ^2 doesn't give me the same output, though.

A Typst Unicoderator could make this transformation for you, but I don't think one's been written yet. An automatic linebreaker à la Prettier sounds like an even more difficult challenge.

There's UnicodeMath, defined at <https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.2....> and <https://unicodemath.org> says there's a UnicodeMath to MathML converter at <https://github.com/MurrayIII/UnicodeMathML/tree/main>. All UnicodeMath seems to get you over Typst in this instance is superscript support.

If you're going to send out math as SVGs anyway, you can also just use your normal latex to PDF renderer (e.g. pdflatex) on each formula, and then convert the output PDFs to SVGs. That way, you get the same output you'd get with latex, and you can also use latex packages that aren't supported by MathJax (e.g. tikz-cd). I've prototyped a latex to html converter [1] based on that approach, but it's probably not ready for serious use. Here's an example: https://www.mbid.me/lcc-model/

[1] https://github.com/mbid/latex-to-html

I made a small tool called latex-to-html that compiles latex documents into webpages. The tool can be found here, and here is an example webpage generated by the tool.