Add MathJax support to the wikis #364

jfch commented 2020年12月14日 00:59:11 +01:00

Hi, a few years ago a gitea user asked for LaTeX support in the Gitea issues tracker on GitHub. A few users showed interest due to the good support for rendering mathematical expressions which LaTeX has. Someone suggested to add the MathJax libraries to the templates as an easy workaround to avoid to add external renderers to the backend.

I would like to use the Codeberg Wikis to document some simple electronic projects, showing some rendered formulas in the wiki. Unfortunately, the LaTeX issue was never solved and there is no way to render a formula using an unmodified Gitea Wiki. Could you add MathJax support to Codeberg?. You only need to add the library to the templates on your side. The users can use it just writing a line with a correct formula in the wiki and it would be rendered.

Hi, a few years ago a gitea user asked for LaTeX support in the Gitea issues tracker on GitHub. A few users showed interest due to the good support for rendering mathematical expressions which LaTeX has. [Someone suggested to add the MathJax libraries to the templates as an easy workaround to avoid to add external renderers to the backend.](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/3445#issuecomment-439673050) I would like to use the Codeberg Wikis to document some simple electronic projects, showing some rendered formulas in the wiki. Unfortunately, the LaTeX issue was never solved and there is no way to render a formula using an unmodified Gitea Wiki. Could you add MathJax support to Codeberg?. You only need to add the library to the templates on your side. The users can use it just writing a line with a correct formula in the wiki and it would be rendered.

hw commented 2020年12月14日 06:27:12 +01:00

We have implemented and tested this for codeberg-test (Codeberg/build-deploy-gitea@9532f25178), however the overhead of loading the somewhat large mathjax library to every page made us hesitant to deploy it unconditionally, as this would affect all slow devices over low-bandwidth connections.

However if the mathjax JS would be loaded lazy and only on demand if actual latex escapes are found on the page, as we do with three.js for STL view, this problem would get circumvented. PR welcome

We have implemented and tested this for codeberg-test (https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/build-deploy-gitea/commit/9532f25178438cde904bc82fc8a9ec04f821c625), however the overhead of loading the somewhat large mathjax library to every page made us hesitant to deploy it unconditionally, as this would affect all slow devices over low-bandwidth connections. However if the mathjax JS would be loaded lazy and only on demand if actual latex escapes are found on the page, as we do with three.js for STL view, this problem would get circumvented. PR welcome

jfch commented 2020年12月14日 22:29:16 +01:00

Thanks for the quick reply. I've been reading the tree.js PR and I can't write something equivalent for MathJax. Lets keep the feature request open so someone with the right skills can implement it.

Thanks for the quick reply. I've been reading the tree.js PR and I can't write something equivalent for MathJax. Lets keep the feature request open so someone with the right skills can implement it.

Ghost commented 2022年07月30日 15:14:45 +02:00

Is there a reason to not add the gitea label to this issue? It looks like something to contribute to gitea, doesn't it?

Is there a reason to not add the **gitea** label to this issue? It looks like something to contribute to gitea, doesn't it?

Gusted commented 2022年08月01日 22:40:08 +02:00

Is there a reason to not add the gitea label to this issue? It looks like something to contribute to gitea, doesn't it?

Maybe becuase it was forgotten? Anyhow, on a related news. I did saw a interesting Pull Request in my mail yesterday, which will add KaTeX support. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/20571

> Is there a reason to not add the **gitea** label to this issue? It looks like something to contribute to gitea, doesn't it? Maybe becuase it was forgotten? Anyhow, on a related news. I did saw a interesting Pull Request in my mail yesterday, which will add KaTeX support. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/20571

6543 commented 2023年01月09日 01:15:22 +01:00

#682

#682