One option is to change the math start and end tags to $ (for inline) and $$ (for block) as is possible with other configurations of MathJax. Would doing that break a lot of things (and if no: can anyone point me in the right direction for this)?
https://github.com/clayh53/tufte-jekyll/issues/36#issue-139613004
Doing this requires adding this to the page:
This should be a configurable option as Mathjax has good reasons for not defaulting to using
$
for inline equations as they describe here: http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/start.html#tex-and-latex-inputping @ekstroem