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I just noticed this last week. I was trying to work out how to use MathJax directly from within JS to render math inline with rendering the rest of my content, rather than asynchronously after the fact.

I love MathJax, but I'm now rendering math on the server using a latex -> dvisvgm pipeline and caching the results

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Depending on your use case, KaTeX [1] may be worth a look. It has a "renderToString" function that returns an HTML string.

[1] https://khan.github.io/KaTeX

One problem of KaTeX is that its feature set is too small. It doesn't even support some very basic commands such as \overrightarrow.

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