TeX Implementation

Because of the Web, there are a few inherent issues that we cannot really get around directly. HTML uses brackets to enclose HTML tags, '$\lt$' and '$\gt$', therefore, it is {\bf not} a good idea to use them in your mathematics. 


MathJax addresses this on their website \href{http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/tex.html}{here} if you'd like to read more about it. The main reason is that the browser has access to the text before MathJax has a chance to render it. Now in the case of this platform, we actually {\it do} have access to the math before the DOM does, however, to keep consistent with the MathJax community, we've also decided to use the {\tt lt} and {\tt gt} commands to replace less than and greater than symbols.


\begin{align*}
a \lt b \\
b \gt a 
\end{align*}

which can be produced using the following \LaTeX:

\begin{verbatim}
\begin{align*}
a \lt b \\
b \gt a 
\end{align*}
\end{verbatim}

Rendering issues

Also there are two environments to encourage keeping your work both online (Web) and offline (PDF): {\tt print} and {\tt interactive}.

\begin{verbatim}
begin{print}
stuff for your PDF version goes here
end{print}
\end{verbatim}

\begin{verbatim}
begin{interactive}
stuff for your Web version goes here
end{interactive}
\end{verbatim}

We have provided, however, our .sty files for some sort of backwards and forwards compatibility \href{https://mathapedia.com/app/assets/tex/latex2html5.sty}{here}.



Online and Offline environments

Download the .tex, save it as {\tt paper.tex}:

\begin{print}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=300pt]{images/download-tex.ps}
\end{center}
\end{print}
\begin{interactive}
\img{/app/assets/paper/download-tex.png}
\end{interactive}

Download the .bib, save it as {\tt sources.bib}:

\begin{print}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=300pt]{images/download-bib.ps}
\end{center}
\end{print}
\begin{interactive}
\img{/app/assets/paper/download-bib.png}
\end{interactive}

Then download the .sty files \href{https://mathapedia.com/app/assets/tex/latex2html5.sty}{here}.


Now, a number of different commands work for this, {\tt latex, pdflatex, xelatex}, but here is what I've gotten the best results with:

\begin{verbatim}
xelatex -shell-escape paper.tex
bibtex paper
xelatex -shell-escape paper.tex
xelatex -shell-escape paper.tex
\end{verbatim}

9.7 Backwards Compatability