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LaTeX formulas in this blog

I write my blog posts in Markdown. Every now and then, I want to include maths formulas (since I'm a mathematician/computer scientist), but Markdown doesn't support displaying maths out of the box. So I have to help myself out differently.

All of the options listed below require sending the LaTeX code to a webservice, which then returns an image with the rendered formula.

iTex2Img

Found on https://stackoverflow.com/a/11256862/2668430, this service needs

QuickLaTeX

The variant using QuickLaTeX needs a bit more work in order to use it, but I worked around that using some simple python foo. Here you

I don't really know if that works well when a formula hasn't been rendered for a long time, since they are saved on the remote server (I guess?), but we'll see.