Nico Schlömer

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TLDR: Markdown + math is hard. GitHub is bad, Gitea better, GitLab best. Backticked syntax trumps $-syntax.

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Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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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.)

Math on GitHub: Following Up

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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.