Member-only story
How to use math formula on Medium posting
I ran a few try to find out a way to use nice math formula rendered and post it on Medium. There are a few ways you can do outside of Medium, but not much here. The Medium doesn’t allow any javascript insertion, which means there is no way to use MathJax in order to render your math formula.
Well, it’s not the best result but if you are okay with Jupyter notebook rendered quality and a bit of extra step, you can somehow use LaTeX rendered formula in your posting.
First, render math formula with LaTeX on your Jupyter notebook. Ensure set the cell type as “markdown”, not “code”, unless that’s what you actually want.
Second, go to the gist.github.com and upload your Jupyter notebook(ipynb) file. If you don’t have github.com account yet, make it first.
Third, copy the gist share link. Do not copy embedded type that includes “<javascript>” tag. Switch the link type to “Share” and copy the URL.
Finally, move to the Medium and create a new posting. Simply paste the URL you copied from gist. Ta-da!
