Enable automatic equation numbering and other feature control in MathJax

[spraguem]

I am a physics professor who uses mathematics in my Canvas material frequently, and I am very happy about the new MathJax implementation in Canvas. I would like to be able to load MathJax configuration options (which must be embedded in <script> tags, but the HTML editor in Canvas strips those tags. One option that I am interested in is automatic equation numbering. See http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/input/tex/eqnumbers.html for details. 

My suggestion is to enable control of MathJax options in Canvas. This could be accomplished by allowing some <script> tags in Canvas HTML documents or allowing an HTML documents in Canvas to reference a MathJax configuration file.

[borge_irgens]

I agree that we should have automatic equation numbering, but Canvas is using Mathjax 2.7, so we may have to use this instead: https://docs.mathjax.org/en/v2.7-latest/tex.html?highlight=numbering#automatic-equation-numbering. It says that the change must be done before mathjax.js is loaded, which could be a problem for your idea of enabling it with <script> tags.

It would also be very useful to be able to use the physics and mhchem extensions, but it seems to only be included in Mathjax 3? http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/input/tex/extensions/physics.html

Does anyone have any idea if administrators can change some of these settings, or if Instructure must do it?

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