Change math renderer to Common HTML

[dennissxz]

By default the math renderer is HTML-CSS.

Can I set it to Common HTML?

[dennissxz]

Solved!

Short answer:
add the following to _config.yml

sphinx:
  config:
    mathjax_path: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js

Long answer:

There are many MathJax configurations, and in my case Jupyter Book uses TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML by default. I found this from the HTML source code in _build/html:

<script async="async" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.7/latest.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"></script>

And the MathJax documentation says TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML will output HTML-CSS.

So just pick a configuration from the list that outputs CommonHTML, such as Tex-MML-CHTML, and add it to the _config.yml file.

sphinx:
  config:
    mathjax_path: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/[configuration-name].js

[choldgraf]

Nice solve! Any interest in adding a short section on "manual mathjax configuration" to the docs here: https://jupyterbook.org/advanced/sphinx.html#manual-sphinx-configuration ? :-)

[chrisjsewell]

Yeh interesting about the CommonHTML. When considering customisation, I would also note a related issue #963