The past weekend I was trying to figure out how to convert 
source to Blogger compatible sources with the support of the powerful MathJax mechanism to display math.
There’s already an excellent tool (latex2wp) that serves the conversion from to WordPress as I noted before (and best advertised by Terry Tao’s WP blog). But there seem to be numerous legitimate reasons for doing similar thing on Blogger, the most notable one is Blogger allows network scripts to run for the blog (check out the concept of content distribution network, or CDN) and the powerful MathJax engine *happens* to provide such CDN service from recently. If you don’t appreciate why the bother to create yet another math display protocol MathJax, just come down here and have a look at the wonderful demos while imagining what would happen to image-based rendering of math at scaling.
A moment’s research revealed the major difference WordPress and blogger (precisely MathJax) are on handling math: the former uses “$1atex … $” format (I intentionally put the number “1” instead of the letter “l” to avoid invoking the WP interpreter) while the latter just directly the code as “$ … $“. Another major piece lies at how they handle displaying style (vs. the inline style delimited by “$ … $“). WP is to handle the following “<p align=center> $ latex \displaystyle … $ </p>\n“, whereas MathJax can handle “\[ … \] ” directly (“\begin{equation} … \end{equation}” alike are converted to “\[ … \]” with proper numbering). Other minor details are different formats of line breaks and so on.
So I have worked on the latex2wp package directly and made necessary changes as discussed. Some simple tests tell that it’s working fine. Probably you’d like to have a try! (Albeit my great admiration for MathJax and blogger, I have no intention to move to Blogger.com yet since it’ll definitely expend a considerable amount of work. ) Here’s the download link from my dropbox
Latex2Blogger.0.6.2b.tar.gz
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Excellent! I’ll take a look at your modifications for latex2wp. I also made a few modifications for my blog, but since I’m hardly a specialist in python they had to be very limited.
By the way can you summarize what you have d0ne?
In fact Paragraph 3 has by and large summarize that; you can compare my code with the original latex2wp codes, there are minimal modifications.
Btw, I notice your blog is also being held on wordpress.com. Are you going to make it work with MathJax? If so, I’m sorry to say that it’s impossible currently from my research on that – wordpress.com does not allow editing the head part of Html. On the other hand, if you intend to transfer your blog to your own wordpress server, you may want to check out this plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latex/
I don’t intend to transfer my blog from wordpress.com but on the other hand I do have another blog on blogger (http://physicsfromthebottomup.blogspot.com/) where I already use math jax to display my equations together with the latex2WP script (with a few changes so that it can be latex2blogger).
Thank you!
But I want use MathJax in my wordpress.com directly, do you know how to set it?
According to this, it’s not supported. You can try wordpress hosting with other commercial host providers. But it’s not hard too incorporate mathjax into static pages nowadays, this is also cool
Thank you for your answer!
If use Octopress, should I built up another website?
For now, I want stay in wordpress.com 🙂
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