Mathematics in Cactus Plus

[Deleted user]

Hi,

Thanks for your amazing theme. I'm trying to render mathematical notation and I've stumbled upon a few issues.

As a note, I'm using RStudio and the Blogdown package.

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

I first started looking at a tutorial from another user of your theme, here.

Then I managed to sort out part of the problem using this resource. So now the mathematical notation appears when I use the $$ sign. However, there's some strange formatting around it that I don't understand where it comes from or how to clean up, is it that the theme treats the math snippets as code snippets? And if so, is it possible to do something about it?

Thanks

[Daniel Coutinho]

I hope I am not too late for this one, but here is a solution that uses katex instead of mathjax. Just paste this to the end of the layouts/partial/footer, just before the </footer>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.10.0/dist/katex.min.css" integrity="sha384-9eLZqc9ds8eNjO3TmqPeYcDj8n+Qfa4nuSiGYa6DjLNcv9BtN69ZIulL9+8CqC9Y" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.10.0/dist/katex.min.js" integrity="sha384-K3vbOmF2BtaVai+Qk37uypf7VrgBubhQreNQe9aGsz9lB63dIFiQVlJbr92dw2Lx" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.10.0/dist/contrib/auto-render.min.js" integrity="sha384-kmZOZB5ObwgQnS/DuDg6TScgOiWWBiVt0plIRkZCmE6rDZGrEOQeHM5PcHi+nyqe" crossorigin="anonymous"
    onload="renderMathInElement(document.body);"></script>

(I got the code from here)

You might have to add katex: true in the YAML of your Rmd files. Mine already had it because I was using another theme that requires that option.

Here it works fine, just like it should. It does not put a box around maths in-line (which I actually prefer)

Cheers