The fastest math typesetting library for the web

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  • KaTeX

    Fast math typesetting for the web.

    • 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.

  • koreader

    An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

    • It does if your EPUB reader supports it—which most don't, but a few do! I am partial to http://koreader.rocks/

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  • asciimathml

    A new home for asciimathml

    • Sure thing, a quick search yields Asciimath which seems at least at first glance as huge improvement in the syntax department: http://asciimath.org

    As for LaTeX in general, Markdown beats it soundly in most aspects.

  • LaTeX-OCR

    pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code.

    • This is also a great aid to learing LaTex. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make an OCR system that generates the appropriate LaTex from an picture of an equation?

    Turns out the answer is yes:

    https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR

  • KeenType

    Discontinued Pure Java typesetting system

    • A while ago I optimized KeenType, which although not JavaScript-based, generates SVG images, which can be embedded into web pages.

    https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keentype

    The following tutorial shows the real-time rendering speed of KeenType within my text editor, KeenWrite:

    https://youtu.be/vgyYXwwF_lc?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzP...

  • caniuse

    Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

    • > I guess it is you that is living in a dream world. There are no epub3 compliant implementations then, because none of them display math properly.

    To start off, you already have posts in this very discussion rejecting your misconception.

    Secondly, mathml works fine when we have an epub3 reader opening a epub3 doc created by epub3 generators from epub3+mathml input. If any of those requirements aren't met, you get issues. This happens with each and every single typesetting feature, not just mathml. Would you claim that epub fails to support tables if you open an epub doc with broken tables?

    Thirdly, a typical implementetion shortcut taken by epub readers is to reuse whatever WebView they pick. If your epub reader uses an outdated or shitty WebView implementation, you get shitty epub docs.

    https://caniuse.com/?search=mathml

    Why are you commenting on subjects you are clearly clueless about?

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