This is read to review at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/491.

If someone here could review the branch, that would be great, so I can
start the release cycle (I want this to be in the release, and I would
like to get a release candidate out tomorrow).

Aaron Meurer

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I've made this easer for people who just want to play around with what
>>> it looks like by pushing a demo up to docs.sympy.org.
>>>
>>> Go to http://docs.sympy.org/mathjax/ and navigate to a LaTeX intensive
>>> page (the mpmath function pages are good examples). Then compare
>>> against the same page replacing "mathjax" in the url with "dev".
>>>
>>> You can see on some pages there are errors (yellow boxes).  For
>>> example, at http://docs.sympy.org/mathjax/modules/galgebra/GA/GAsympy.html.
>>>  This is because they are somehow defining custom control sequences.
>>> I haven't figured out how to make these work with MathJax yet.  I want
>>> to see if people like this idea before I try anything further.
>>>
>>> By the way, the built mathjax docs are 7.3 MB, whereas the built docs
>>> using the current method are 13 MB.
>>
>> For my book, where I use *tons* of math in sphinx:
>>
>> http://theoretical-physics.net/
>>
>> I also tried mathjax, but some of the pages take forever to load. So I
>> decided to stick with latex, which is not ideal, but is very robust
>> and renders fast.
>>
>> SymPy docs don't contain nearly as much math as
>> theoretical-physics.net, so I think we can try to use mathjax, and if
>> it turns out that the experience is worse, we can always revert it
>> back to latex. So I would give it a shot.
>>
>> Ondrej
>
> Some of the pages do. I've tested it with some of the pages from Tom's
> gsoc branch which contain a lot of math, and it has worked fine. The
> benefit is that the build time is *way* faster, and you also save a
> ton of disk space by not having LaTeX images (even our docs were half
> the size, and that's just with math mainly in the mpmath docs).
>
> And of course, the MathJax math looks way nicer.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>

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