making mathjax typeset on request from my code

[ly...@lynges.net]

Hi.

I have been reading the docs, but nothing popped out as the thing I am looking for. It might be there, but I simply not found it.

I would like to load mathjax on a page and have it do absolutely nothing.

Then my own code iterates some elements that have math (and only math) in them. I would then like to be able to tell mathjax that this one element I am looking at right now contains for example asciimath and it is inline, please typeset this and make it look awesome.

How would I best go about doing that?

Thanks in advance.

[Murray]

Hi

You could use this in your configuration to stop MathJax from processing on page load:

skipStartupTypeset: true

(see http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/options/hub.html)

Then after you have added your bits of math, you could use the process explained on this page to process them:

http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/typeset.html

See especially the example at the bottom

If it is ASCIIMath input, just use the appropriate config setting when calling MathJax:

https://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=AM_HTMLorMML

Hope it helps

Regards

Murray

[ly...@lynges.net]

Thanks for the input. Got away from the project for a bit. Could'nt quite make your suggestion work, but I found something that is probably more appropriate.

It is mentioned here:

http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/model.html#how-mathematics-is-stored-in-the-page

That one could just create those <script> tags and have MathJax do its thing as usual. It kinda works.

I would like to have my math rendered within <math> elements, but MathJax refuses to work with these. I guess someone thought that since it is reserved for MathML it should not be used. Maybe they are right, but I would like to turn this off and have the outermost element of the rendered math be a <math> element that I specify, but I can work around it so don't sweat it.

A much bigger problem is that for some reason MathJax will not create the <div class="MathJax_Display"></div> when I tell it to use mode="display" it still creates inline spans and nothing is centered. Any ideas as to why this is? This is of course not when using <math> elements as they produce nothing at all.

Many thanks for any input as I have been pulling my hair over this for a couple of hours now.