Displaying math equations in GitHub markdown
The best technique I found so far is a web service https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php where you can enter a LaTex equation on the webpage and get an image and an HTML snippet to embed into your Markdown page like this:
The snippet contains an <img src=...> tag to get the server to return an image, optionally wrapped in an <a href=...> tag so that clicking on the image will take you to their equation editor to edit the equation.
Note: The result is more reliably if you ask it for the "URL Encoded" output format and use that URL, even if you paste it into the img src tag of the "HTML (Edit)" output format or into the Markdown image link format .
An example from docs/metabolism.md:
also
- on a GitHub Markup Issue
- on Stack Overflow
- Survey of Syntax for Math in MarkDown
- There are web services to display GitHub documents in ipython or other formats, but those servers can't fetch the document from a private repo.