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Is math display turned on in the WeBWorK wiki?

Is math display turned on in the WeBWorK wiki?

by Malcolm Harper -
Number of replies: 5

I was looking at the page https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Mathematical_notation_recognized_by_WeBWorK in the WeBWorK wiki and I noticed a number of unrendered <math> ... </math> constructs.  Perhaps math rendering is not turned on in the WeBWorK wiki since the reinstall?

(Edited by Michael Gage - original submission Saturday, 30 May 2020, 12:09 PM)

In reply to Malcolm Harper

Re: Is math display turned on in the WeBWorK wiki?

by Glenn Rice -

Most likely we missed a mediawiki extension.  Mike, do you know what extension this is?  I suspect it may be https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math.

(Edited by Michael Gage - original submission Saturday, 30 May 2020, 2:18 PM)

In reply to Glenn Rice

Re: Is math display turned on in the WeBWorK wiki?

by Michael Gage -

Do we want Extension:Math or Extension:SimpleMathJax? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleMathJax

I'm leaning toward the MathJax version unless you see something wrong with it.
In reply to Michael Gage

Re: Is math display turned on in the WeBWorK wiki?

by Glenn Rice -

I think I would lean toward a MathJax extension also.

In reply to Glenn Rice

Re: Is math display turned on in the WeBWorK wiki?

by Michael Gage -

I've installed Extension:SimpleMathJax   -- that seems to have fixed the immediate problem.


I have not enabled $ and \\( as delimiters for mathjax. For sysadmins: that can be done in mediawiki_new/ LocalSettings.php . By default it uses CDN.