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0 pointsakurilin11y ago0 comments

We actually work in the same space you guys do :)

We're all dealing with having to display more complex math to students once you get past 5th grade in the Common Core, also on web and iPads. Appreciate you folks taking the time to release something like this to the public. People haven't been hounding us down because of the slow UX yet, but I can see that happening down the line. I'm hoping we can open source some of our tools as well once we're your size :)

My only other question was: is KaTeX 100% interchangeable with MathJax as far as syntax goes? What I'm asking is if we already have a lot of content written for MathJax, will we need to massage it into a new syntax or should it work for the most part?

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xymostech11y ago

The syntax will be almost entirely interchangable with MathJax; we also have a lot of content in MathJax-flavored-TeX and need it to work. However there are a couple small things that MathJax did strangely that we'd like to fix.

However, there are some features we don't support yet, notably environments (with \begin/\end) and some symbols. If you're using more advanced features, you might hit some snags. If you're trying to do something simple and it's not working, feel free to submit an issue on github, we'll see what we can do for you.

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