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It would be nice to add nicer math formatting. I currently use the [[plugins/teximg]] plugin, but I wonder if jsMath wouldn't be a better option.

[[Will]]

I've looked at jsmath (which is nicely packaged in Debian), and I agree that this is nicer than TeX images. That text-mode browsers get to see LaTeX as a fallback is actually a nice feature (better than nothing, right? :) That browsers w/o javascript will not be able to see the math either is probably ok.

A plugin would probably be a pretty trivial thing to write. It just needs to include the javascript files, and slap a <div class="math"> avound the user's code, then call jsMath.Process(document); at the end of the page.

My only concern is security: Has jsMath's parser been written to be safe when processing untrusted input? Could a user abuse the parser to cause it to emit/run arbitrary javascript code? I've posted a question about this to its forum: --[[Joey]] https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsmath/forums/forum/592273/topic/3831574

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