Switch to using markdownit for rendering

templates/base.j2

@@ -57,8 +57,11 @@ StackOverflow link on why to avoid \(..\) and \[..\] when markdown is in the loo
 <script>
 MathJax = {
     tex: {
-    inlineMath: [['$', '$']],
-    displayMath: [['$$', '$$']]
+        inlineMath: [],
+        displayMath: [],
+        processEnvironments: false,
+        procesRefs: false,
+        processEscapes: false,
     },
     options: {
         skipHtmlTags: [
@@ -70,6 +73,24 @@ MathJax = {
         ],
         ignoreHtmlClass: 'tex2jax_ignore',
         processHtmlClass: 'tex2jax_process',
+        renderActions: {
+            find: [10, function (doc) {
+                for (const node of document.querySelectorAll('.math.inline')) {
+                    const math = new doc.options.MathItem(node.textContent, doc.inputJax[0], false);
+                    let text = node;
+                    math.start = {node: text, delim: '', n: 0};
+                    math.end = {node: text, delim: '', n: 0};
+                    doc.math.push(math);
+                }
+                for (const node of document.querySelectorAll('.math.block')) {
+                    const math = new doc.options.MathItem(node.textContent, doc.inputJax[0], true);
+                    let text = node;
+                    math.start = {node: text, delim: '', n: 0};
+                    math.end = {node: text, delim: '', n: 0};
+                    doc.math.push(math);
+                }
+            }, '']
+        }
     },
 };
 

test/test_latex.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from markdown_it import MarkdownIt
+from mdit_py_plugins.dollarmath import dollarmath_plugin
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader, select_autoescape
+
+import html
+# can be removed if we make `print_docs` an installable module
+sys.path.append(str(Path(__file__).parent.parent)) 
+
+md = (
+    MarkdownIt('commonmark' ,{'breaks':True,'html':True})
+    .use(dollarmath_plugin)
+    .enable('table')
+)
+
+env = Environment(
+    loader=FileSystemLoader('templates', 'utf-8'),
+    autoescape=select_autoescape(['html', 'xml'])
+)
+
+def write_pure_md_file(source, dest, name):
+  with open(source) as infile:
+    body = md.render(infile.read())
+
+  with open(dest, 'w') as out:
+    out.write(env.get_template('pure_md.j2').render(
+      active_path = '',
+      name = name,
+      body = body,
+    ))
+
+
+write_pure_md_file('test/latex.md', 'latex.html', 'LaTeX test')