[Rd] Feature request – math in HTML help

2021-05-27 Thread Jan Netík
Hi all, long I have been thinking about proper rendering of math in the HTML form of R documentation. As you know, you can write \eqn{} in your .Rd files and this is nicely rendered into the PDF Reference manual of the package with the aid of TeX. However, that is not the case in the aforementione

Re: [Rd] Feature request – math in HTML help

2021-05-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 27/05/2021 2:34 p.m., Jan Netík wrote: Hi all, long I have been thinking about proper rendering of math in the HTML form of R documentation. As you know, you can write \eqn{} in your .Rd files and this is nicely rendered into the PDF Reference manual of the package with the aid of TeX. Howeve

Re: [Rd] Feature request – math in HTML help

2021-05-27 Thread Jan Netík
I am so sorry, my post sounded quite the opposite of what I intended! I used the term "monkey patch" as a technical one (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch) and I said "weird" meaning mathjaxr is something fulfilling the concept, but only figuratively. Actually I gave mathjaxr as a g

Re: [Rd] Feature request – math in HTML help

2021-05-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 27/05/2021 4:54 p.m., Jan Netík wrote: I am so sorry, my post sounded quite the opposite of what I intended! I used the term "monkey patch" as a technical one (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch ) and I said "weird" meaning mathjax

Re: [Rd] Feature request – math in HTML help

2021-05-27 Thread Simon Urbanek
Just to clarify the confusion, let me rephrase that. I see this as a request to add support for converting \eqn{} and friends to MathJax in R html documentation (both in core packages as well as all contributed packages). That sounds like a reasonable request to me, but I would not volunteer t