Latex example does not work in solara 1.17.5

[kolibril13]

I have a small bug to report:
I've just tried to copy+paste this latex example https://solara.dev/api/markdown, but it does not seem to work on the latest Solana version:

[maartenbreddels]

Thanks for the report,

Weird thing is that after running:

from IPython.display import Math
Math(data='E \sim mc^2')

It does work, which means that window.MathJax is only available after some mathjax extensions/bundle/chunk is loaded in the notebook.

[kolibril13]

Indeed, that's weird, your example also works on my machine.
Don't know if you know about https://katex.org/, maybe that's an alternative.

[maartenbreddels]

Yes, but I prefer to stay close to ipywidgets/jupyter, which uses mathjax.

[maartenbreddels]

or do you see strong reasons to switch, and do you know if it is compatible?

[kolibril13]

I recently read an article that mentioned katex as alternative fast latex renderer.
But I see that it makes total sense to stay with the ipywidgets default mathjax option.

[iisakkirotko]

Hi! Just to update the conversation here as well, it seems like jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets#3847 fixes this issue in ipywidgets, so perhaps we can continue developing on their success.