LaTeX math in github wikis

Aurelius picture Aurelius · Mar 6, 2014 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

Is it possible to include LaTeX-style math in any way with github repo wikis? Googling implies github no longer allows things like MathJax, but most references are years old. What (if any) alternatives are there to including LaTeX-formatted math in github wikis?

Answer

Viliam Simko picture Viliam Simko · Feb 14, 2017

You can use chart.apis.google.com to render LaTeX formulas as PNG. It work nicely with Githhub's markdown:

Example (Markdown):

The ratio of the momentum to the velocity is
the relativistic mass, m.

![f1]

And the relativistic mass and the relativistic
kinetic energy are related by the formula:

![f2]

Einstein wanted to omit the unnatural second term
on the right-hand side, whose only purpose is
to make the energy at rest zero, and to declare
that the particle has a total energy, which obeys:
![f3] which is a sum of the rest energy ![f4]
and the kinetic energy.

[f1]: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=m=\frac{m_0}{\sqrt{1-{\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}}
[f2]: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=E_k=mc^2-m_0c^2
[f3]: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=E=mc^2
[f4]: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=m_0c^2

https

Some installations of Github Enterprise reject http and work only if you use https

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