texme VS KaTeX

It probably won't cover needs of "make documents at our office" but I'd like to mention https://github.com/susam/texme. Basically you prepend your markdown file with a line of HTML/Javascript, rename it to HTML and it'll render pretty in a webbrowser.

This is nice. We are website-mates. My website is also 2001-2022. I like the simple and serif font on your website.

I had thrown in your https://github.com/susam/texme few times to quickly send Markdown files for reading. :-)

By default vs code has latex on md. Also https://github.com/susam/texme

So the Markdown to HTML rendering happens as page load time.

This would hopefully allow me to forego the static .md -> .html step I use for building my sites.

I found one called 'texme' here: https://github.com/susam/texme

Do you use or have written a similar tool?

Does the Self-Hosting heading not answer that objection?

https://github.com/susam/texme#self-hosting-texme

> Open source maintainers abandoning projects due to lack of time and interest.

And the occasional demanding users who would rather have us working on their problems instead of our own.

Only about a couple of hours ago, I received an issue[1] on one of my projects suggesting I fix an issue which from my perspective appeared to be a lack of understanding of the documentation I have provided with the project. Unclear issue details and demanding behaviour can take a toll on a maintainer's morale.

[1] https://github.com/susam/texme/issues/21

I want to resolve this KaTeX issue, so in order to test my ideas, is there some LaTeX test file with just a lot of equations, preferably inline (since this issue is related to inline math) but without fancy libraries or stuff not included in KaTeX?

> Could you elaborate on why you switched away from it?

I started using KaTeX sometime after 2015 because it promised to be fast (the fastest! [1]). I had to change the representation of a bunch of expressions because KaTeX didn't support some environments, whilst MathJax did. It was a trade-off I was willing to accept at the time.

Many years later, I started writing a personal static-site generator. I wanted comparatively lightweight pages, so rendering server-side was an option. I re-evaluated MathJax vs KaTeX again and this time I leaned towards MathJax, as speed was no longer an issue for me. It looks like KaTeX has broader support now [2].

[1] https://katex.org

[2] https://katex.org/docs/support_table.html

Another alternative: Create a WebView by using UIViewRepresentable and Webkit together with MathJax or Katex where Katex is the better option. Here is a link to katex: https://katex.org/

This isn't a LaTeX question. It's a web dev question. Probably best directed at folks who make (or use) KaTeX.

KaTeX

(1) [https://katex.org/

If you want to make it from scratch, go with https://www.slatejs.org/examples/richtext, then use something like https://katex.org/ for rendering the LaTeX, and maybe Mathjs.org for plotting.

The speed of KaTeX is great, but the lack of support for diagrams (a la tikz-cd) is what makes KaTeX unsuitable for general adoption by mathematicians (e.g., mathoverflow.net and all online mathematical wiki I know use MathJax). KaTeX has some rudimentary support for diagrams though the {CD} environment, but something more fully fledged akin to tizk-cd or xymatrix is needed. There's been some discussion on their github (https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/issues/219), but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Haven't personally used it, but have heard of KaTeX