Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Reading/Functional and beautiful math for everyone

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Functional and beautiful math for everyone

• Problem:The math extension has a lot of bugs, missing features and deficiencies due to the output being images rather than text-like. Most math related websites like math.stackexchange.com use "MathJax out of the box" and do not have these problems. Re-submission of Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Reading/Functional and beautiful math for everyone
• Who would benefit: Readers and editors of mathematical articles, books etc.
• Proposed solution: In a commission of interested volunteers we came up with a road-map to remove the problematic conversion of "texvc" to standard LaTeX syntax. For a state-of-the-art rendering system we also need to improve the output format. Making it more like "MathJax out of the box" might need additional infrastructure (e.g. to supply web-fonts), needs a long-term maintenance concept and has to work together with almost all software components, so we would like WMF staff to help us.
• More comments:
• Phabricator tickets: phab:T195861
• Proposer: Debenben (talk) 19:29, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

• An example of missing mathematical notation is that required for actuarial functions. See phab:T175673 . -Stelio (talk) 20:16, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support Debenben (talk) 18:32, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Boehm (talk) 18:49, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:30, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Tom Ja (talk) 23:50, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Consulnico (talk) 23:58, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Braveheidi (talk) 01:56, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 09:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Walter Klosse (talk) 09:35, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Libcub (talk) 11:14, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Goultard59 (talk) 13:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support wooooo LaTeX syntax Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 20:38, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Mmitchell10 (talk) 20:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Agusbou2015 (talk) 20:55, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Tom (LT) (talk) 23:20, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:43, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Nightdevil (talk) 06:34, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:30, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 17:12, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support FriedhelmW (talk) 18:20, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Dvorapa (talk) 18:56, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Ninovolador (talk) 20:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Strong support Waddie96 (talk) 08:07, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - tucoxn\^talk 16:40, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -Xbony2 (talk) 16:44, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Wumbolo (talk) 17:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Stelio (talk) 13:07, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Lord van Tasm (talk) 13:15, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Crh23 (talk) 15:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Deacon Vorbis (talk) 17:08, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Saung Tadashi (talk) 18:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Pamputt (talk) 18:42, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Tim bates (talk) 21:52, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Joalpe (talk) 22:17, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:51, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Vulphere 07:20, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 13:50, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Somej (talk) 15:10, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support VasilijB (talk) 16:32, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support, since certainly there are bugs. I hope the two archaic Greek letters needed in Ptolemy's table of chords will still work after the improvements. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:45, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support kocio ✉ 21:54, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 13:21, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Chrisric (talk) 11:24, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Anything to make contributing and understanding math articles is very welcome, math is hard enough already John Cummings (talk) 16:19, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Ultimograph5 (talk) 02:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Vctrbarbieri (talk) 03:14, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Hmxhmx 10:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Ghilt (talk) 13:17, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Kaartic ^{correct me, if i'm wrong} 17:13, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Helder 13:24, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Ranjithsiji (talk) 22:32, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 02:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support TheAwesomeHwyh (talk) 02:52, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support PMG (talk) 12:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:14, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Wcherowi (talk) 19:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - FlightTime (open channel) 20:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Paper wobbling sound (talk) 21:57, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Miles.world (talk) 23:14, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support PJTraill (talk) 00:40, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Izno (talk) 00:59, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Jakob.scholbach (talk) 10:30, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Zache (talk) 14:17, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Linguistical (talk) 16:20, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Thgoiter (talk) 18:11, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 01:29, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

@Bestoernesto: Why oppose? Do you have concerns regarding the roadmap or because you think the other wishes here are more important than providing a math extension that works properly?--Debenben (talk) 19:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Calvinballing (talk) 15:16, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support MartinThoma (talk) 21:18, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — NickK (talk) 15:36, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:39, 30 November 2018 (UTC)