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RE: mathematics markup in steemit? by dkmathstats

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· @dkmathstats · (edited)
The solution I use is a workaround solution. I use QuickLaTeX.com to convert LaTeX into images in my math posts here. (I am not familiar with MathJaX but I have heard of it.)

You can't use LaTeX here but you can use images!
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@peeterjoot ·
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Mathjax ( https://www.mathjax.org/ ) encodes the equations without images, so you can rescale your browser page and the equations will always be readable.  As a specific example, take a look at a page that uses mathjax, such as:

http://peeterjoot.com/2016/01/05/energy-momentum-tensor-for-a-scalar-field/

No amount of control-plus-minus in your browser will make the equations fuzzy.  Compare that to a page that uses latex generated images, like:

https://steemit.com/mathematics/@dkmathstats/right-angle-triangles-and-the-soh-cah-toa-acronym

On this page, control+ a few times makes the c^2 = a^2 + b^2 really fuzzy.  

Many mathjax engines, such as the one that is used on stackexchange, physicsforums and the wordpress plugin mentioned) have latex equation parsers, so you can write your equations just as you would normally when doing latex -> pdf, but they can be rendered nicely in html.
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@dkmathstats ·
Hm. I would have to look into MathJax in more detail. 

Currently, I am using RMarkdown to write my posts and LaTeX offline. The text from R Markdown would be transferred into the Steemit text window before posting. Any math LaTeX would be done with QuickLaTeX.com.
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@peeterjoot ·
The following steemit post: 

https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptovest/missing-markdown-functionalities-on-steemit-footnotes-and-mathjax-latex

also discusses this issue.  Looks like there was a feature request for mathjax in steemit:

https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/7

I wonder how stackexchange dealt with the security issues that led this feature request to be closed?

I wonder how hard it would be to fork the UI:

https://github.com/steemit/condenser

and try implementing this?
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