How to invoke mathjax?

[flossgeek]

I have let g:instant_markdown_mathjax = 1 set in my .vimrc file. However, I can't manage to trigger mathjax formatting. Both \(...\) and $$...$$ are without any result. How do I tackle this?

[ashwinvis]

Can you follow https://github.com/instant-markdown/vim-instant-markdown/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md to understand your problem better?

[flossgeek]

Well, I think I found the problem already. I was first using the smdv python server, which had some quirks. Now I'm using the npm package of instant-markdown-d, which works much better and math is also displayed correctly.
Any clue on why smdv doesn't work? Is it not as well supported as instant-markdown-d?

[ashwinvis]

smdv relies on pandoc. You can check if it is available in your machine.

[flossgeek]

Yes, exactly. Pandoc is installed on my machine (by the package manager), but formulas aren't rendered as with the instant-markdown-d server.

[ashwinvis]

Strange. Perhaps smdv's pandoc call is missing some flags. I would recommend sorting this out at smdv's issue tracker.