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by xeonmc 1455 days ago
I wonder if the initial choice to $ and $$ syntax was to keep the syntax identical to VSCode's built-in KaTeX rendering for Markdown preview? You'd think that they could just port over the VSCode implementation directly which already works quite well without most of the inconsistency issues in the website's MathJax counterpart, especially considering that VSCode is their own Electron product too.