upgrade mathjax

[williamstein]

Rob Beezer says in reference to "also Mathjax puts a trailing vertical line at the end of every latex formula. Do you know a quick way to fix this?"

I believe this is mathjax/MathJax#1300 and the short answer is that MathJax 2.6 has a fix. I think it is specific to Chrome.

I've never seen this issue, but we may as well upgrade mathjax...

[williamstein]

Basically modify src/smc-webapp/package.json line 21 (the mathjax line)... Can do automatically via some npm command.

[rbeezer]

This vertical line bug is almost an FAQ on mathjax-users the past few weeks. 2.6 has been out for two months now and seems to be stable (and fixes about 30 bugs). Sounds like a 3.0 is on the roadmap, perhaps for 2016 sometime.

https://www.mathjax.org/whitepaper-towards-mathjax-v3/

[haraldschilly]

tested it my test project in various documents, no issues.

[williamstein]

Let's go live.

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[rbeezer]

mathjax-users thread about combining MathJax and webpack:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mathjax-users/1os6XOGkLOc/discussion

[williamstein]

@rbeezer -- thanks; I did once fully server mathjax via webpack, but it's a subtle disaster. Things would randomly work sometimes and randomly not others. (I imagine it'll require some real work by the mathjax devs...)

[rbeezer]

I'm guessing, based on skimming their white paper, that their 3.0 release (a year, or more, away) is about playing nicely with lots of web apps (for lack of a better term). Maybe @jasongrout will get it all figured out then (or it will be straightforward).