List of recognizes keywords

[Casey W. Stark]

[Previously posted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mathjax/forums/forum/948700/topic/3642344]

peterfurlan1
2010-03-26 05:57:03 PDT

Is the such a list? \bullet seems to be unknown, \quad too,
environments like itemize or enumerate don't exist.

It would be very helpful to know the vocabulary - trial & error ist
too hard.

Peter

----------

caseystark
2010-03-26 07:54:07 PDT

Hi peterfurlan1.

MathJax does not support LaTeX lists. This is because MathJax is
designed to display LaTeX formatted math, not to replicate all LaTeX
commands. If you want lists on your page, you should use the standard
html <ul> or <ol> tags.

Here's what Davide (our lead developer) had to say:
In those cases where text appears in the mathematics (e.g., through
\text or \hbox), the text content is not processed further (other than
to look for mathematics it might contain). MathJax will try to put
this mathematics into the fonts it is using, but if it is not in those
fonts, the browser should look for those characters in other fonts
(the results may be browser-dependent). If your TeX input includes
unicode characters that MathJax doesn't recognize, it will pass them
through as though they were alphabetical characters. You can also use
the MathJax \unicode{} extension to request specific unicode code
points.


If you are interested in turning full LaTeX documents into HTML,
instead of just math display, you can find the popular converters
listed here.

Having a list of all TeX commands that MathJax recognizes would indeed
be useful. We will prepare a list soon and post an update here.

----------

caseystark
2010-03-28 18:00:56 PDT

Another note - both \bullet and \quad are there, but MathJax only
processes math-mode material, so they will only be interpreted when
used in math mode, not in text. The itemize and enumerate
environments are text-mode environments, and are not implemented in
MathJax.

----------

peterfurlan
2010-03-28 22:25:05 PDT

Thank you for the reply - I'd like to use it in a forum for first year
engineer students without LaTeX knowledge - so i've got to add a short
tutorial with the most used commands.

----------

dpvc
2010-04-18 05:59:17 PDT

Peter:

Casey has put up a simple alphabetical list of the TeX commands that
MathJax supports on the www.mathjax.org site. A more categorized list
is in the works. We hope that helps in the meantime.

Davide