# MathJax on Discourse
**URL:** https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679
**Category:** General
**Created:** [May 28, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679 "2017-05-28T01:53:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@aaronjg](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/aaronjg)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/1 "2017-05-28T01:53:57Z")
Would it be possible to turn on MathJax for the forums? It would make it much easier to type math formula, and it looks like there is a good discourse plugin for it.
> **[kasperpeulen/discourse-mathjax](https://github.com/kasperpeulen/discourse-mathjax)**
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> Mathjax plugin for discourse. Contribute to kasperpeulen/discourse-mathjax development by creating an account on GitHub.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Carpenter](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/Bob_Carpenter)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/2 "2017-05-28T22:40:04Z")
I’m all for it. @betanalpha or @syclik can probably deal with that and I know they like math, too :-)
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### Author:  [@betanalpha](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/betanalpha)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/3 "2017-05-28T23:23:22Z")
Because Discourse is graciously providing hosting for the forum we don’t have the ability to add arbitrary plugins, and MathJax is not one of the plugins currently supported.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Carpenter](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/Bob_Carpenter)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/4 "2017-05-28T23:53:44Z")
Bummer. Thanks for looking. As much as I like math, I prefer offloading our hosting obligations.
Might they consider adding it or is there something blocking that? Seems like a lot of people would want MathJax for open-source community blogs.
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### Author:  [@betanalpha](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/betanalpha)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/5 "2017-05-29T00:24:11Z")
No idea who to even contact at Discourse. I wasn’t involved in the hosting arrangement.
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### Author:  [@ariddell](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/ariddell)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/6 "2017-05-29T01:21:23Z")
Can’t hurt to ask and see if they will install it.
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### Author:  [@aaronjg](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/aaronjg)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/mathjax-on-discourse/679/7 "2017-05-29T19:02:37Z")
It sounds like the Julia folks have asked, but there was not enough demand at the time - but it sounds like there have since been a few other projects interested, so maybe it has reached critical mass? Can’t hurt to ask.
> **[MathJax for LaTeX equations](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mathjax-for-latex-equations/212)**
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> Would it be possible to add MathJax to Discourse? It would be nice to be able to write good looking LaTeX equations.