MathJax support in rendered README files (.rst and/or .md)
Problem to solve
Allow project maintainers to use MathJax for math formatting so that math formulas can be displayed.
Intended users
Maintainers and people who will read the README files.
Proposal
Support the use of MathJax in at least one of ReStructuredText (via the :math:
directive) and Markdown (via direct MathJax use: (a^2 + b^2 = c^2) )
Default delimiters should be \( \)
and \[ \]
, which are fairly standard in MathJax.
See for example https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-plugin/65770 (Discourse)