Problem with runing sphinx with mathjax offline

[eflanigan00]

I'm trying to run sphinx offline with mathjax. I'm using the anaconda distribution which runs ipython notebook with latex (mathjax I think) just fine.

I have sphinx.ext.mathjax in the extensions and everything works fine when I'm online. When I go offline the latex equations don't render.

I've added the following to try to get mathjax to use the one I think ipython notebook is using:

mathjax_path = 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\notebook\static\components\MathJax\MathJax.js'

I checked the path and it has a config/TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML-full.js so I also tried:

mathjax_path = 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\notebook\static\components\MathJax\MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML-full'

Anyone have any idea how to get this to work from the mathjax provided in Anaconda?

[tk0miya]

This is an issue list of Sphinx. Did you mean this is a bug of sphinx (or request for sphinx) ?
FYI: Here is a forum for Sphinx: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sphinx-users

BTW, I guess the windows path causes an error. How about use r'...' string?

[eflanigan00]

I think thinks is a bug of sphinx.
I can't get the mathjax_path to work with the anaconda distribution when offline.
As I said the ipython notebook works. So in theory sphinx should also work.

I'm happy to try to debug it if someone can tell me where to start looking.

I tried with r'', I tried delimiting with C:\, I tried C:/
None of them seemed to work.

[tk0miya]

Okay, could you try to add file:// suffix to the mathjax_path please?
In my short investigation, it should have an URL, not a path.

[eflanigan00]

Thank you tk0miya, that worked:

 mathjax_path = 'file://C:/ProgramData/Anaconda3/Lib/site-packages/notebook/static/components/MathJax/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML-full.js'

[eflanigan00]

Now mathjax doesn't render bmatrix correctly. The following only puts parenthesis by def, I need the parensthesis to extend the height of the full matrix.

.. math::

   \mathbf{A_{X}} =
   \begin{bmatrix}
   abc \\
   def \\
   ghi \\
  \end{bmatrix}

Also posted here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47841950/sphinx-mathjax-offline-with-anaconda-distribution

[eflanigan00]

Testing with a fresh download of MathJax/config/default.js seems to work fine.
I think anaconda doesn't ship with the full mathjax to support what I'm trying to do.

This is what I need:

mathjax_path = 'file://C:/ProgramData/Anaconda3/Lib/site-packages/notebook/static/components/MathJax/MathJax.js?config=default.js'

[Alleno]

I tried to specify the mathjax_path, but it doesn't seem to cause any changes in the output file path, I'm still getting <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.0/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"></script>

Is this an option to add at the end of conf.py, at the leftmost indentation of the file?

[tk0miya]

@Alleno How did you configure it? Please share your conf.py as a new issue.