On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 9:31 AM Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 08:06:05AM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:01 PM Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've implemented basic MathJax support in texi2any in commit
> > > 7ff3cbdc4. To use it, run texi2any as "texi2any --html -c
> > > HTML_MATH=mathjax". Feedback would be appreciated on how well it works
> > > with Texinfo manuals containing math typesetting.
> > >
> >
> > This is really great news!  Maxima's manual has many formulas, but
> they're
> > all wrapped in @ifhtml and @iftex.
> >
> > With this new version, how do I get formulas typeset?  @math?  Something
> > else?
>
> Just use @math with no conditional.
>
> I downloaded maxima 5.44.0 and to build the documentation without building
> the package, I did
>
> texi2any.pl --html maxima.texi --no-validate -c HTML_MATH=mathjax
>
> and this worked.  For example, the file
> maxima/Functions-and-Variables-for-zeilberger.html in the output
> had math displayed OK in most cases if JavaScript is enabled (although
> there
> may be a few problems I need to look at).
>

This is really awesome!  And thanks for testing it out; I'll try myself
soon.

Does this also mean I can use AMSTeX features in @math?  I guess that also
means I still need @iftex and @ifhtml versions since tex output only
understands plain TeX, right?  Still this is a very nice feature!


-- 
Ray

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