LaTeX in article titles isn't properly rendered on home page nor article page

oh joy do we have to do a mathjax thing...

edit: oh wait looks like there's a serverside latex math renderer, that sounds better than bundling 1MB of js https://katex.org/docs/api

edit2: ok i checked this out - all the serverside rendering for latex math in ruby just uses katex or some other older js rendering engine. the gems are at least 2 years unmaintained, but they are literally just wrappers around the execjs gem and katex, so we could borrow that code (with attribution) and vendor our own katex so we can update it periodically? then we add a note in the docs saying any latex in titles needs to have the $'s touching the first and last characters with whitespace on either side like $x = y$ so we can write regex that matches it but not if someone is using a dollar sign as a currency symbol (which always has whitespace before it).

we can repurpose some of mathstodon's code that we borrowed at neuromatchstodon to replace common latex commands with unicode symbols

but at that point we might as well say "no latex in titles" which is no fun

openjournals / joss

LaTeX in article titles isn't properly rendered on home page nor article page #1382