Manually set inline math delimiter

[aiifabbf]

If I want MathJax to detect and render inline equations delimited in a pair of $, there currently seems no way to specify this in config.yml.

I tried inserting MathJax loading script and manually setting the delimiters by

    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.1/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML"></script>
    <script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
    MathJax.Hub.Config({
        tex2jax: {
            inlineMath: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ],
            displayMath: [ ['$$','$$'], ["\\[","\\]"] ],
            processEscapes: true,
            processEnvironments: true
        },
        // Center justify equations in code and markdown cells. Elsewhere
        // we use CSS to left justify single line equations in code cells.
        displayAlign: 'center',
        "HTML-CSS": {
            styles: {'.MathJax_Display': {"margin": 0}},
            linebreaks: { automatic: true }
        }
    });
    </script>

but the output pdf looks like this, with a MathJax loading mark on the bottom left

It seems ReLaXed did not wait until MathJax has done rendering.

How can I set inline equation delimiter to $ then?

[Zulko]

Have you had a look at this wiki section ?
https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed/wiki/Special-file-renderings#equations

And this example:
https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed-examples/blob/master/examples/paper/paper.pug

[aiifabbf]

Thank you for the quick reply.

Have you had a look at this wiki section ?
https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed/wiki/Special-file-renderings#equations

I have, but it only says use delimiters \\( and \\), did not mention how one can manually change the default delimiters for inline equations.

And this example:
https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed-examples/blob/master/examples/paper/paper.pug

This demo does not seem to contain any inline equation.

[Zulko]

Ok (I was just checking that you were aware of the original feature for equations). What you are asking is a custom configuration of mathjax, which is not implemented at the moment. Apparently it is a matter of adding "singleDollars: true" to the configuration of mathjax-node-page, in this ReLaXed file. I'll look at it later.

[aiifabbf]

Thanks for your concern.

Actually, I had worked on my own very primitive attempt to bring web technologies to scientific writing, until I found this great project today. However, I do not think ReLaXed is yet ready for scientific writing as it lacks some crucial (at least for me) functionalities like auto numbering for figures and tables(such as Figure 1 in figure captions), cross reference(such as as Figure 1 shows somewhere else in the article). Maybe I should propose these in other issues. Nevertheless, hopefully ReLaXed can evolve to replace LaTeX. 👏

[Zulko]

Simple latex-style figures and tables numbering could be implemented using pug macros (or even maybe CSS counters, not sure). I'll try a plugin when I have time.

One thing that will be more difficult however is to generate table of contents or figure tables.

At the moment I use ReLaXed for making slideshows, more than for other kind of documents. See here for some examples (I'll certainly add more in the future). One nice feature I use a lot is the capability of the SVG plugin to turn a SVG into a progressive slide. This saves me a lot of time.

[zicklag]

I submitted a fix in #188 . Thanks for pointing out the solution @Zulko.