Integrated LaTeX rendering in Flask web app

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📅 2024-02-17 — Session: Integrated LaTeX rendering in Flask web app

🕒 17:20–18:15
🏷️ Labels: Flask, Latex, Mathjax, Web Development, Education
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to integrate dynamic LaTeX rendering into a Flask-based web application using MathJax, enhancing the educational platform’s capability to display mathematical exercises.

Key Activities

  1. Dynamic Exercise Display: Implemented a workflow to dynamically display exercises using Flask, incorporating LaTeX rendering with MathJax or KaTeX.
  2. Flask Route Adjustments: Updated links in index.html to correctly point to Flask routes serving exercise content, ensuring proper rendering in exercise.html.
  3. LaTeX Integration: Integrated LaTeX-rendered exercises into the platform using MathJax, with necessary HTML and Python code adjustments.
  4. Content Handling: Developed a function to fetch exercise content from text files for MathJax processing.
  5. Troubleshooting: Addressed MathJax errors related to unsupported LaTeX environments by modifying content and extending configurations.
  6. Rendering Issues: Resolved LaTeX rendering issues by focusing on unsupported environments and dynamic embedding in HTML templates.
  7. Inline LaTeX Rendering: Configured MathJax to render inline LaTeX expressions in HTML, setting up delimiters and preprocessing content.
  8. CDN Integration: Integrated MathJax via CDN, configuring options for both MathJax version 2 and 3.

Achievements

  • Successfully integrated MathJax for dynamic LaTeX rendering in the Flask application.
  • Improved the educational platform’s capability to render complex mathematical content.
  • Resolved rendering issues and optimized configurations for better performance.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing and optimization of LaTeX rendering configurations.
  • Explore additional MathJax features for enhanced rendering capabilities.

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