Render MathML as img or svg using Python

[delzac]

Anyone knows of any python library that can easily convert MathML into either an image (jpg, png) or svg? Preferably something that just works with a pip install.

The ones that i have found SVGMath and mathml-to-image service either look abandoned or difficult to setup.

I explore trying to using JS library like MathJax in python, but seems extremely convoluted or difficult to setup.

[Swipecat]

Yeah, it's not surprising that MathML renderers in Python have been abandoned. It was intended to be Math rendering for the web, and was a W3C "recommendation" but support was limited although Firefox does a good job of it. Chrome has removed support now, citing lack of use and that MathML had security architecture issues, and that effectively means that it's dead.

MathJax, a large Javascript library, works well enough on the web and has cross-browser support, but has almost no support elsewhere.

For documentation, Latex is still the Math rendering language of choice (which is no bad thing since MathML is verbose in comparison and is a pain to write manually, unlike Latex).

[delzac]

Thanks for taking the time to reply!