pkgdown 2.1.0 prevents `\eqn{}` and `\deqn{}` math rendering on function reference pages under Bootstrap 5

[nanxstats]

Minimal reproducible example

#' Example
#'
#' @param x \eqn{f(x) > 0}: inline equation
#'
#' @details
#' Display equation:
#'
#' \deqn{y = \alpha + \beta X + \varepsilon}
#'
#' @export
f <- function(x) NULL

and set

template:
  bootstrap: 5

in _pkgdown.yml.

pkgdown 2.1.0 + Bootstrap 5

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pkgdown 2.0.9 + Bootstrap 5

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[hadley]

Hmmm, I wonder what's different between your example and https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/articles/test/rendering.html#math

...

Oh maybe because it's an example, and we don't seem to have a test for math rendering in examples :(

[cgiachalis]

@nanxstats Did you try setting the previous default, e.g. mathjax. That's solved my problem at least.

template:
  bootstrap: 5
  math-rendering: mathjax

[jayhesselberth]

Confirmed, setting math-rendering: mathjax fixes this issue.

We should try to figure out why mathml (which is now the default) doesn't work.

[cgiachalis]

Just to mention that the rendering is not what is used to be. I see different fonts as reported in #2739.

Right clicking on the equation -> About MathJax, I get the following:

Current version

Before v2.1.0

[cgiachalis]

And the answer is here: https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/upgrading/v2.html#not-yet-ported-to-version-3

The MathJax v3 output jax currently only support one font, the MathJax TeX fonts. Improved font support is an important goal for version 3, and this is one of the next features to be addressed. We will be rebuilding the fonts used for MathJax, and making additional web fonts available in a future release. We also plan to make the tools used for creating the necessary font data available for use in porting your own fonts for use with MathJax.

So by upgrading mathjax to v3.2.2, we don't get web TeX fonts..

[nanxstats]

This is how math rendering looks like using math-rendering: "mathjax" under pkgdown 2.1.0 (reproduced under both macOS and Windows):

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Maybe it's because the MathJaX fonts are missing, from all the 404s in network requests:

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Since it's tricky to side-load the MathJax fonts (originally defined in JS), my current workaround is to use the katex option and side-load the KaTeX fonts (also missing from pkgdown) using pkgdown/extra.css. Example: https://github.com/keaven/gsDesign/pull/161

I'm not in a place to suggest anything on the font situation, but it would be very useful to have math rendering working again on function reference pages for all engine types.

[jayhesselberth]

@nanxstats Do you know if there is a CDN source for katex / Mathjax fonts? If so we could include them in the dependencies:

https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/blob/1d40a80e6b3564a6d7da0ce467b0a4570aa5665e/R/external-deps.R#L60-L91

We're probably not going to bundle math fonts in pkgdown itself.

[cgiachalis]

Indeed, katex option didn't work either out of the box.

Thanks for confirming @nanxstats .

[jayhesselberth]

Would we expect inclusion of these fonts from cdnjs to have an effect? These could be added to the mathjax dependencies. There are also SVG fonts, not sure which we'd need.

It's also a little puzzling why katex fonts aren't included in the dependencies we are already listing. I can't find a reference to need a separate katex font download.

[nanxstats]

@jayhesselberth I will let the MathJax experts comment on what should be used.

For KaTeX, I think you can add these 60 fonts files as "cached dependency" (may not look pretty...). It didn't work before probably because the CSS file is cached locally and distributed with the pkgdown site. It contains relative font paths that are interpreted as the pkgdown site instead of the CDN site.

[jayhesselberth]

If we're going to need to include many external font dependencies for katex / mathjax, we may need to go back to the yaml format that was originally in #2249.

[louisaslett]

I've hit this issue just now, and felt it was a bit much work to include all the font files manually although that was a cool solution given above. My slightly hacky approach is just to remove the math-rendering: katex completely and inject the official KaTeX starter template headers directly, which uses the CDN for everything:

template:
  bootstrap: 5
  includes:
    in_header: |
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.11/dist/katex.min.css" integrity="sha384-nB0miv6/jRmo5UMMR1wu3Gz6NLsoTkbqJghGIsx//Rlm+ZU03BU6SQNC66uf4l5+" crossorigin="anonymous">
      <script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.11/dist/katex.min.js" integrity="sha384-7zkQWkzuo3B5mTepMUcHkMB5jZaolc2xDwL6VFqjFALcbeS9Ggm/Yr2r3Dy4lfFg" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
      <script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.11/dist/contrib/auto-render.min.js" integrity="sha384-43gviWU0YVjaDtb/GhzOouOXtZMP/7XUzwPTstBeZFe/+rCMvRwr4yROQP43s0Xk" crossorigin="anonymous" onload="renderMathInElement(document.body);"></script>

I found this "just worked" for now thankfully, though it'd be really nice to have this fixed (ideally with option not to use CDN) so that the math-rendering: katex is all we need.

[MLopez-Ibanez]

A math-heavy example that used to work until recently: https://mlopez-ibanez.github.io/eaf/reference/igd.html