Fwiw, the DDG query that led me to that was:

  mediawiki latex rendering svg

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 2:18 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Is this relevant and/or helpful at all?
>
>   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 6:39 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:44:53PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>> > It would be great to work with collaborators who can help
>> > me upgrade that server to Debian Bookworm and the web
>> > pages to mediawiki.
>>
>> MediaWiki - I'm stuck.  The basic wiki behavior is working,
>> but the next step (before wikifarm) is learning how to add
>> math markup, and also how to make incremental backups of
>> the mariadb database.
>>
>> Save the backup question for a subsequent email.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Wikipedia's math markup resembles LaTeX at the user level;
>> TeX is I prefer and what I've used since the 1980s.
>> I want to duplicate that user interface and markup
>> format for my own mediawiki websites.
>>
>>
>> Wikipedia:Sandbox example LaTeX markup:
>>
>> <math>\sqrt{x^2+y^2}</math>
>>
>> That renders as an SVG in the Wikipedia Sandbox, using
>> Brave Browser and Firefox.
>>
>> The second line of "view-source" of the SVG image is:
>> <title id="MathJax-SVG-1-Title">{\displaystyle {\sqrt
>> {x^{2}+y^{2}}}}</title>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> QUESTIONS:
>>
>> How does the Wikipedia server create that SVG image
>> "under the covers"?
>>
>> How do I configure MediaWiki to use the same tool chain
>> on my own Debian 12 Bookworm server?
>>
>> What IS that toolchain at this time, and how do I query
>> the Wikipedia site to learn what it is?
>>
>> Which document(s) should I read?  Which contradictory
>> documents should I ignore?
>>
>> Which mailing list should I be asking instead?
>>
>> Keith L.
>>
>> P.S. I wouldn't mind paying a MediaWiki/Wikipedia guru
>> to show me how to do this, perhaps even teach a class
>> to show MANY of us how to do this.
>>
>> --
>> Keith Lofstrom          [email protected]
>>
>

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