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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](http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/) wouldn't be a better option.
+It would be nice to add nicer math formatting.  I currently use the
+[[plugins/teximg]] plugin, but I wonder if
+[jsMath](http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/) wouldn't be a better option.

 
 [[Will]]
 
 
 [[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> 
+
+I think [mathjax](http://www.mathjax.org/) would be the best option. This is the math rendering engine used in mathoverflow.
+

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