GitHub now supports math rendering

[yzhang-gh]

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-05-19-render-mathematical-expressions-in-markdown/

$$a = b + c$$

[Lemmingh]

:墙裂害怕:

Not sure how to express myself. There is nothing new under the sun. ¹

GitHub rolled out a good number of changes in the past day, making it impressive.

Among them, the math support, however, is astonishing. I'm afraid I cannot understand why they chose this horrifically complex implementation. ² Those severely counterintuitive and upsetting problems should have been identified during beta testing, if any. But GitHub seemed satisfied with their bizarre design, and just put it into docs.

• math in markdown via KaTeX/MathJax community/community#4991 (comment)

• github/docs@a7fb637

Footnotes

1. Ecclesiastes. The idiom in modern context often means "similar things have happened many times before" or "it always turns out that way" (neutral) or "humans never learn lessons" (pessimistic). ↩

2. I spent a few hours tracing the front-end logic. Now I feel ill. ↩

[yzhang-gh]

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