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Weekly notes

A quick tour of GitHub Flavored Markdown, rendered exactly the way GitHub shows it. No surprises, no broken tables.

This week

  • Tables with alignment
  • Task lists and footnotes1
  • Ship the release
FeatureStatusLatency
Rendering✅instant
Search✅real-time
Math✅KaTeX
export function render(doc: string): Rendered {
  return pipeline.process(doc); // real syntax highlighting
}

Front matter becomes a tidy header, never noise dumped into the text.

Footnotes

  1. Footnotes render with backlinks, just like GitHub. ↩

Real output: tables, task lists, footnotes, and syntax-highlighted code, exactly as GitHub shows them.

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Math, beautifully typeset.

Inline and display equations render with KaTeX: integrals, matrices, Greek letters, and the full LaTeX vocabulary, crisp at any size. Ideal for papers, lecture notes, and READMEs that do real math.

  • ✓ Inline like $E = mc^2$ and standalone display blocks
  • ✓ Matrices, sums, integrals, and operators
  • ✓ Rendered instantly the moment a document opens
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Mathematical typesetting

Inline math like E=mc2E = mc^2 flows right inside a sentence, and display equations stand on their own, beautifully typeset with KaTeX.

Maxwell’s law, with the displacement current:

∇×B=μ0J+μ0ε0∂E∂t\nabla \times \mathbf{B} = \mu_0 \mathbf{J} + \mu_0 \varepsilon_0 \frac{\partial \mathbf{E}}{\partial t}

The Gaussian integral and the Basel sum:

∫−∞∞e−x2 dx=π∑n=1∞1n2=π26\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2}\, dx = \sqrt{\pi} \qquad \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}

A rotation matrix, and the most elegant equation in mathematics:

R(θ)=(cos⁡θ−sin⁡θsin⁡θcos⁡θ)eiπ+1=0R(\theta) = \begin{pmatrix} \cos\theta & -\sin\theta \\ \sin\theta & \cos\theta \end{pmatrix} \qquad e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0

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