Looks great! Will KaTeX support (c.q. integrate with) ASCIIMathML.js¹,²? AsciiMath is dubbed “TeX without backslashes”, or as “markdown for math”.³ (La)TeX input can become laborious, and the syntax gets difficultly readable, very rapidly.
With AsciiMath syntax⁴ (and Unicode!⁵) you can write δA instead of `\delta A`, ½ instead of `\frac{1}{2}`, ((a,b),(c,d)) instead of `\begin{pmatrix}a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}`, &c.
We won't support ASCIIMath yet. There's a lot of content on the web already in LaTeX syntax (and on our own website), and a lot of people already know it. It is difficult to use and read, but it gets the job done. Maybe once we've gotten all of the core LaTeX features done, we'll start looking to this. Thanks for the info, though!
yes, would love asciimath support. most of the math that'll exist on the web isn't there yet, and it'll be so much easier to the next billion internet users than learning latex.
katex looks great though. we (socratic.org) might start using it if we can find a good asciimath=>latex converter.
Check out https://github.com/mathjax/asciimathml/blob/master/asciimath.... It uses the AsciiMath parser to generate latex to be fed into mimetex for rendering, but it could probably be daisy-chained with katex. I keep it current with the latest AsciiMath revisions.
I created such a daisy-chained page that uses ASCIIMathML input with KaTeX rendering where possible, and it falls back to MathJax when KaTeX can't handle the expression. See
With AsciiMath syntax⁴ (and Unicode!⁵) you can write δA instead of `\delta A`, ½ instead of `\frac{1}{2}`, ((a,b),(c,d)) instead of `\begin{pmatrix}a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}`, &c.
¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCIIMathML ² http://www.asciimath.org ³ http://boolesrings.org/krautzberger/2014/08/10/asciimathml-t... ⁴ http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimathsyntax.html ⁵ http://www.johndcook.com/math_symbols.html