MathJax Compiler in LaTex

[Olivier Nicole]

Thanks to you both for your input. I see now that my arguments to say 
that the two programs are different were by far not the simplest ones.

Also, I didn't know about processing of MathML in TeX! Thanks for the 
discovery.

Olivier

On 08/02/2022 06:50, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> I must disagree as well Oliver, but for different reasons than Phillip.
> 
> First to see that MathJax */is/* different from TeX you could browse the 
> sources. MathJax is Open Source:
> 
> https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-src/ 
> <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-src/>
> 
> It does use a few algorithms and techniques that are in the original 
> TeX, and it mimic the original display of formulas awfully close, but if 
> you build a display using the same fonts, and specially if you use 
> enlargements, you can see the differences.
> 
> Now to believe that TeX can't process MathML is just plain incorrect. It 
> may not be the best language to do so, but in order to use it you just 
> need the appropriate macro and package set
> 
> If you choose ConTeXt and the "mathml" module and you can process 
> results immediately, as seen here:
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57717/relationship-between-mathml-and-tex 
> <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57717/relationship-between-mathml-and-tex>
> 
> Paulo Ney
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> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:07 AM Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) 
> <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk <mailto:P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Olivier Nicole wrote:
>>     [...] I simply used this as an argument to say that it stands to
>>     reason that the implementation of MathJax must be different from
>>     that of TeX, since it has to support a different set of primitive
>>     constructs.
>     I respectfully disagree.  Which is not to suggest that I believe
>     that the implementation of MathJax is necessarily the same as that
>     of TeX (I have no idea whether it is or not), merely that I
>     challenge the assertions on which I believe your argument to is based.
> 
>     For a start, why do you assert that "[MathJax] has to support a
>     different set of primitive constructs" ?  Why must they be
>     /primitive/ constructs ?  If MathJax were/is the same as that of
>     TeX, then those constructs could be handled by a format file.
> 
>     As to "the MathML specification describes a few mathematical
>     elements that, in (La)TeX, would require to use a dedicated
>     package", there would be no requirement for "a dedicated package" at
>     all — a competent (La)TeX programmer could write code to handle
>     those elements without needing any extra package(s).
> 
>     The defence rests.
>     -- 
>     /Philip Taylor/
>