> advantages of KaTeX:

> It’s faster.

> You can copy-and-paste math.

Someone mentioned that you can theoretically copy-and-paste KaTeX output in an earlier thread about GitHub's new math rendering too. But I think calling that an "advantage" is crazy.

LaTeX will transform your one-dimensional textual formula specification into a two-dimensional graphical formula. The concept of copying and pasting the output as text is a category error. It isn't text and if you try to paste it, you'll get something other than what you wanted.

Just to be sure I'm not crazy, I tried copying the output of the demo on the KaTeX homepage. Here it is:

> f(x)=∫−∞∞f^(ξ) e2πiξx dξ

This is much, much, much worse, if you want a textual representation, than copying the LaTeX source:

    \f\relax{x} = \int_{-\infty}^\infty
        \f\hat\xi\,e^{2 \pi i \xi x}
        \,d\xi

And it's worse even though the raw source includes the quirk that LaTeX isn't able to provide proper spacing for the differential over which an integral is being calculated, so you have to space it yourself with \, commands.