https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31406

Nicholas Longo <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Nicholas Longo <[email protected]> 2011-10-14 03:21:36 UTC 
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I think mathjax is probably the way to go in the future.  Texvc is not very
well maintained because on one wants to deal with the ocaml portion.  Mathjax
could solve several serious issues.  

For example there is the question of when/how to expire texvc cached math
images.  Currently nothing is done and if something originally rendered
incorrectly then it will be that way forever after, even after texvc is later
able to produce the correct image.  

There is the inline vs displayed math, I am not sure how this is handled by
Mathjax, but it cannot be any worse then texvc.

Mathjax doesn't have a baseline issue that I am aware of.

There is also server load, this transfers work that the servers have to do over
to the client side.

And no unimportantly Mathjax is widely used and actively developed.

Some issues to think about.  Texvc supports some commands that are not latex
commands, and sanitizes latex input so that we now there are now existing in
WMF wiki's non-standard latex that people have come to expect to render, which
may have some issues under Mathjax.

Also, and perhaps this is a bit naive, but the extension above uses just
dollars instead of <math>, if there is a WMF page with randomly lots of dollar
signs running around will there be portions of the text that are inadvertently
treated as math?

I am sure there are many more issues, but I want to add my voice to the idea
that we should test out mathjax.

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