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Markdown + LaTeX math in the browser

Shown by pkrein on Feb 2, 2013. Click the card to turn it over.

121points

32comments

#179of 1,739 in 2013

Top 11%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

6 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Execution: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

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Math renders in a smaller font on Chromium on Linux
From 2 comments
- I tested it on Chromium (the FOSS version of Google Chrome), and in that browser, the math uses a much smaller font than the Firefox version. (Firefox looks "right.") I'm using…
  csense on HN
- Same here with Chromium (23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
  Benferhat on HN
Live preview reformats math jarringly while typing
From 2 comments
- I wish it had better support for live editing, but this is really a limitation of MathJax / TeX in general. Still, I wonder if it might be possible to improve the experience a…
  hyperbovine on HN
- That's what I was going to say. I found the constant reformatting of the math stuff in the right pane extremely jarring. Otherwise, nice and simple.
  mcmire on HN
No export option
From 1 comment
- It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be any export option.
  gmt2027 on HN
Unclear how to publish or embed pages outside Socrates
From 2 comments
- Does this mean you can only see the math in Socrates? How do you publish a page on the web outside Socrates?
  warmfuzzykitten on HN
- this looks nice, but i'm confused.. how do i actually use it on my webpage?
  hnwh on HN

Export option
From 1 comment
- That's something we've gotten a lot of requests for and want to build one of these weekends :)
  ianstormtaylor on HN
Smart quotes and heading ids in Markdown
From 1 comment
- Beautiful! You wouldn't happen to know if it supports "smart" quotes would you? Been meaning to find one that does support those. Also auto-id-ing heading elements so they can be…
  ianstormtaylor on HN
Pandoc-style extended Markdown
From 1 comment
- Really wish they used Pandoc Markdown or some other form of extended Markdown... then I could consider using it for real stuff,
  amckinlay on HN

Is there a keyboard shortcut for the compiled view?
From 1 comment
- People in this thread may also find GmailTex useful. It's a browser plugin which enables using LaTeX syntax in Gmail and GChat. http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html P.S.: This…
  jessriedel on HN
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
- This is cool. I wanted to do a blog post on some real estate appraisal topics, which requires math examples. Is this open source? Where I can I find socrates.io - it goes…
  cpursley on HN
How to use it on a webpage?
From 1 comment
- this looks nice, but i'm confused.. how do i actually use it on my webpage?
  hnwh on HN

GmailTex
From 1 comment
- People in this thread may also find GmailTex useful. It's a browser plugin which enables using LaTeX syntax in Gmail and GChat. http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html P.S.: This…
  jessriedel on HN
jqMath
From 1 comment
- Why not use jqMath? It's latex based, 10 times smaller, and 10 times faster than MathJax - which is aimed more at publishers.
  pixie_ on HN
markable.in
From 1 comment
- That's cool. I was using markable.in in last weeks. But lack of code highlighting and Mathjax brings socrates.io on the first place :)
  imslavko on HN
SpanDeX
From 1 comment
- If you think this is cool, check out http://spandex.io/
  somethingnew on HN
notepag.es
From 1 comment
- There used to be a similar service at http://notepag.es/ However, it seems to be down now.
  nimrody on HN