MathJax support

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    troymcconaghy · Member ·

    WordPress.com currently has an old-fashioned way of rendering LaTeX markup into “nice” mathematical equations as PNG images. I put “nice” in air quotes because the resulting equations look jagged and terrible.

    The modern way to render mathematical equations on web pages is to use MathJax.

    MathJax isn’t some guy’s side project, it’s a project of the MathJax Consortium, a joint venture of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

    WordPress.com can continue supporting the old way, so old blog posts don’t break, but it needs to add support for the new way: MathJax. Just give us some shortcodes or markup for the new way. Thanks!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    wpgaurav · Member ·

    I totally agree with you. Firstly, the behavior and alignments of the png images change with theme by theme and secondly, it looks very ugly and unreadable on print. This was one of the biggest reasons, that I had to move my Math blog from WordPress.com to a Self-host installation.

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