kisonecat/tikzjax

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TikZJax is TikZ running under WebAssembly in the browser

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…with things like LaTeX pre-loaded. (The author uses it to run tikz in a browser in this repository: https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax )
comment by dunham · 2026-10-21 · in Shipping a LaTeX Compiler Behind an Edge App
I wrote https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax for running tikz in the browser with webassembly, but I have work to do to make it work better.
comment by kisonecat · 2023-11-20 · in Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online?
…to svg beforehand and including them in your html files? For the former I would look at TikZjaX ( https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax ) which takes tikz code and convert it to svg on the fly, just like MathJaX converting TeX equations. It…
comment by lahvak · 2023-03-22 · in Ask HN: PST-plot for the web? (LaTeX's declarative SVG plot generation)
You might also be interested in tikzjax ( https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax ) for diagrams which works "good enough". I use them together but there is a pretty noticeable delay with tikzjax - I'm not sure of any alternatives at this…
comment by thdc · 2020-10-11 · in MathJax
…as a standalone tool in a different language? (Or make it available in a variant like Mathjax? Like https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax except without running an entire TeX engine in the user's browser.)
comment by gwern · 2020-09-11 · in The sad state of PDF-Accessibility of LaTex Documents (2016)
Apropos "[...] for Everything ", https://github.com/kisonecat/tikzjax might be of interest. It uses a WebAssembly copy of tex. Regrettably neither KaTeX nor MathJax support category theory diagrams. And I'd like to try making interactive…
comment by mncharity · 2020-02-09 · in Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything