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by JadeNB 1775 days ago
> TeX is a a turing-complete language, picking some random subset of LaTeX commands would feel pretty arbitrary to me.

I'm not sure why Turing completeness makes it easier or harder to choose a subset—perhaps easier, since "make it not Turing complete" should be a guiding principle for anything you compile on behalf of someone else—but MathJax and KaTeX are both pretty good guides for an "acceptable" subset.