The State of Math in Markdown
TLDR: Markdown + math is hard. GitHub is bad, Gitea better, GitLab best. Backticked syntax trumps $-syntax.
Nico Schlömer
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Math on GitHub: Following up
About six weeks ago, on May 19, 2022, GitHub released Math support on Markdown. At the time of the release, it received criticism for being ill-designed and buggy. I, too, wrote a blog post about it.
Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few other things so check it out.)
tau: The better pi
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics. — G.H. Hardy Hartl and Palais. In 2001, Bob Palais wrote the article π is wrong! , remarking on the fact that when π occurs in nature, it occurs as 2π most of the time. He suggests that 2π = 6.283185… should be given a name (τ is now a fan favorite) and that it should be used instead of π. Some found his…