Bug#963767: RFP: mathjax-node-page -- filter for server-side MathJax rendering
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : mathjax-node-page
Version : 3.2.0
Upstream Author : Peter Krautzberger <p.krautzberger@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/pkra/mathjax-node-page/
* License : Apache-2.0
Programming Lang: JavaScript
Description : filter for server-side MathJax rendering
MathJax is a widely adopted math typesetter for web-based applications.
It allows you to embed TeX code in HTML and have it rendered in users’
browsers. However, because the rendering occurs in-browser, MathJax can
be slow and resource-intensive.
mjpage(1), included in the mathjax-node-page package, offers an
alternative approach: it reads HTML from standard input, generates the
DOM that MathJax would produce, and serializes that DOM into HTML on
standard output. This effectively prerenders the mathematics, removing
load from users’ browsers and improving load times. Since mjpage(1) uses
MathJax as a library, the output is guaranteed to be identical to that
produced by the in-browser renderer.
mathjax-node-page’s dependency tree has some packages that aren’t yet
packaged or need attention in Debian, but I haven’t investigated them
too fully. No word on how much work is required here.
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