Is it possible to compile packages and use them on the web?

[oovm]

For example, I want to use AMS-LaTeX in wasm, and then use it as an alternative to KaTeX or Mathjax.

Rust code can be ported to wasm with wasm-pack, what are other difficulties to be solved?

[pkgw]

@GalAster Well ... I don't know! This has been an area of interest for a long time, but no one has sat down to do the work to try to make it happen, as far as I know.

Tectonic relies on native C/C+ libraries like harfbuzz, so those would nee to be wasm-ified with emscripten, but we can deliver statically linked Tectonic executables so I think that part should be doable. That's the only obvious wrinkle that I can think of.

[kpym]

For info, texlive has already be ported using emscripten : https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js

[rgbkrk]

What I'm really curious about is if there's some subset here that would be on par with MathJax, at least at the level supported in Jupyter notebooks. I'm working on Jupyter notebook support in zed-industries/zed#9778 and would love to have math formatting via $$. Zed's UI is written fully in Rust and could accept PNGs. As an example, check out crates/repl/src/outputs.rs from zed-industries/zed#12062

Update: made my comment into a separate issue #1199