mhchem throws error about mathjax-demos-node

[pkra]

I realize this is an upstream issue in v3 but I've failed to figure out which branch of the v3 repo to look at.

[dpvc]

This is a duplicate of mathjax/MathJax-src#268, and was resolved by the pull request mathjax/MathJax-src#270 (which was after the beta.4 release).

[dpvc]

I've failed to figure out which branch of the v3 repo to look at

The demos are built with the 3.0.0-beta.4 branch

[pkra]

Thanks.

[dagda1]

@dpvc this was fixed in #270 June 2019 but it still has not been released unless I am missing something

export var mhchemParser = {

The whole structure is so complicated. The main branch is at 3.2.0 but if I do npm info mathjax3 versions I get

  '3.0.0-alpha.0',
  '3.0.0-alpha.1',
  '3.0.0-alpha.2',
  '3.0.0-alpha.3',
  '3.0.0-alpha.4',
  '3.0.0-alpha.5',
  '3.0.0-alpha.6',
  '3.0.0-beta.1',
  '3.0.0-beta.2',
  '3.0.0-beta.3',
  '3.0.0-beta.4'

If the fix has not been released which it has not, then how do we get it?

Go to the repo and start looking at different branches until I track it down.

I think mathjax is great but the structure and versioning are verging on the insane.

[dagda1]

I am going to use patch-package but I would love to make this less crazy.

[pkra]

@dagda1 I'm not sure what problem you're running into. It does seem fixed for me -- if I clone this repo, run npm i and $ node direct/tex2chtml "x", I get the expected output.

[dpvc]

I believe you are using the wrong package. The mathjax3 package was a temporary one while MathJax version 3 was being developed. Once it went into production, the mathjax package went to version 3. If you do npm info mathjax version you will get the current versions of MathJax. If you look at the documentation for MathJax, you will see that it suggests mathjax@3 or mathjax-full@3 (for the source distribution). Note that the npm page for the mathjax3 page says it is a development package for v3, so that is not the official distribution.

[dpvc]

I've deprecated the mathjax3 branch.

[dagda1]

@dpvc apologies, I had a moment earlier. Thanks for the clarification, I wrote an npm package that uses mathjax and I was seriously confused about which version to use.

I still do find it confusing but at least now it does not refer to a branch, should help.

[dpvc]

@dagda1, no problem, and glad you got it working. Your sine demo is nice!