Turn theory appendix in book into the Pikelet specification about pikelet HOT 6 CLOSED

Coming from reddit for Gutenberg: am I correct in thinking that katex/mathjax rendering is done in JavaScript? If so it could easily be done as a shortcode no?

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Thanks for stopping by! I was kind of assuming you'd use the autorender extension, but then you get the issue of escaping all the maths with the double back slashes. Wish there was a way to give inline code and code blocks ids. That way you could just mark the elements you wanted to apply the maths to, and still have it be visible in the github markdown previews.

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For reference, this is what the theory page looks like currently in Github. Blergh.

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I mean, ideally this would all be done using KaTeX's serverside rendering feature. This would require executing bits of Javascript and then inlining the results into the rendered page though, which might be a pain to implement in Gutenberg.

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This would require executing bits of Javascript and then inlining the results into the rendered page though, which might be a pain to implement in Gutenberg.

Yeah running JS from Rust is not going to be nice. Ideally there would be a C/Rust implementation that could have a wasm target for browsers but I'm not sure some people have that much free time/will to reimplement. Unless that happens, I don't think you will get nice markdown output using anything other than a JavaScript environment :/

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Yeah, after messing around with a few options, I'm thinking I'm going to be going with a JavaScript solution, like VuePress or Docusaurus, for better or worse! Thanks a bunch for your assistance though, I really appreciate it! I have a bit of a weird use case I'll admit! 😅

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