Hello everyone, glad to see the progress on this! It would be a major advancement in the user experience of using our beloved _statistical_ language and environment. I have brought the topic a year ago or so here and Simon Urbanek offered a "hack" which I have implemented in the package many use today (https://github.com/netique/documath). However, it is a customized Rd2HTML injection, which is generally a really bad idea... (OT: check out the {mvbutils} package, which I think does a bunch of "illegal" things, such as rewriting base functions on the fly.)
As far as I know, I would certainly vote for KaTeX, as it is _perceivably_ faster and, as many of you mentioned, is capable of server-side rendering which I deem promising. Keep up the good work! Best, Jan út 15. 3. 2022 v 11:44 odesílatel Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP) < wolfgang.viechtba...@maastrichtuniversity.nl> napsal: > Hi Ivan, > > I would say the biggest impact is in terms of the size of the installed > package (~4MB versus ~2.9MB). Of course, these days this is a trivial > difference in terms of storage. The decrease in load and execution time is > probably negligible (esp. when MathJax is served locally), but I haven't > done any proper benchmarks on this. > > Note that mathjaxr only minifies when the (suggested) 'js' package is > installed, so this step is completely optional. > > Best, > Wolfgang > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ivan > Krylov > >Sent: Monday, 14 March, 2022 22:03 > >To: Duncan Murdoch > >Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > >Subject: Re: [Rd] Bundling MathJax > > > >On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 10:05:18 -0400 > >Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> The file used for display is usually a minified version of the > >> MathJax source, and Debian didn't consider it close enough to source > >> code to want to distribute it as FOSS. So if the minified file is > >> included with R, the original source should also be included. > > > >Pardon my ignorance, but how much does it matter whether the file is > >minified when the documentation is served over a local network? Does > >JavaScript minification speed up parsing or involve other > >transformations without which it would be hard or impossible to run the > >code in the browser? > > > >-- > >Best regards, > >Ivan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
