I have not formatted math before. I suspect DesignSafe is missing the extension to allow that. I will test (pymodwnx) arithmatex interpreting the equation. If you have bandwidth and interest, you can try to test it also:

1. Add TACC-Docs' mkdocs.base.yml lines (42-72)
   to the bottom of rinconraul's mkdocs.yml in this branch.
2. Stop & Start server.
3. Hope for the best.
   ^{I'll try it later.}

I have not formatted math before. I suspect DesignSafe is missing the extension to allow that. I will test (pymodwnx) arithmatex interpreting the equation. If you have bandwidth and interest, you can try to test it also:

1. Add TACC-Docs' mkdocs.base.yml lines (42-72)
   to the bottom of rinconraul's mkdocs.yml in this branch.
2. Stop & Start server.
3. Hope for the best.
   I'll try it later.

I couldn't access to TACC/TACC-Docs but I checked and tested the arithmatex (using this webpage)
Summary:
+ adding MathJax to the mkdocs.yml works, and now the equations are rendered correctly!!
- most of the code hidden in relative links and styles for figures now are also rendered!
-- if we try KaTeX, the entire new look of DS User guide is lost.

Hope this works to reduce your tests... but maybe some of those 42-72 lines also help to avoid the first -. Otherwise I can edit the equations which are rather simple.

@rinconraul, very helpful, thank you!

Please report that issue (and your solutions and results) in DS-User-Guide Issues and/or feel free to open a PR. I'll investigate the "-" con. I think I know how to solve the "--" con.¹

Update: Reported as #44.