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by Tomte·12y ago·view on hn ↗
How do you think about MathJax vs. pre-rendering formulae to images and using those, with the TeX input as the alt attribute? Oh, and using STIX or whatever as web font.
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There is already a couple of packages for Racket that prerenders formulas in TeX into various graphic formats (they call LaTeX to the rendering). It is straightforward to use these from Pollen.
I know that it's straightforward, I'd like to hear about pros and cons I haven't found myself.
If you want an html-page that works offline, then MathJax is rather large. In that case it makes sense to generate pdfs or svgs containing the formulas. Otherwise using MathJax from a CDN is quite convenient. On mobile rendering a page with many formulas via MathJax is somewhat slow though.