texme VS math-ml

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 implemented MathML as web components a few years ago as a work around. It wasn't super hard, but a native implementation provides so much better accessibility (and, likely, perf) https://github.com/pshihn/math-ml

Unfortunately there is no common in-browser Math rendering and as the referenced article points out, pictures of equations are not the solution [2]. A common mathematics rendering format is desperately needed but nobody really seems motivated to solve it.

My approach is to use MathML that is rendered natively by Firefox and use JS to render in other browsers [3]. MathJax is way too heavy the last time I checked (growing towards 1MB) [4]. Instead I use math-ml, a JS library that is somewhat complete/abandoned but mostly works in about 80kB [5].

My rational for supporting Firefox's approach is that it's the browser I use, MathML is supported by W3C [6], MathML is supported by pandoc and there is a lightweight workaround for other browsers.

[1] https://pandoc.org/

[2] https://danilafe.com/blog/math_rendering_is_wrong/

[3] https://coffeespace.org.uk/projects/mathml-render.html

[4] https://www.mathjax.org/

[5] https://github.com/pshihn/math-ml

[6] http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML