19/08/2023
#### How to display LaTeX equations with HTML?
I wanted to add some equations for my [blog post](/entries/but_what_is_nucleus_sampling_anyway.html){target="_blank"} about Nucleus Sampling. Searched the web for a way to do it, did not find anything that worked without altering the `pandoc` command. So I decided to write this post.
The solution is to embed [MathJax](https://www.mathjax.org/){target="_blank"} in to the page and escape every back slash in the equation with another back slash. So you would add this line **directly** to your actual blog entry, i.e. markdown file:
```html
```
And then you can add equations like this:
```html
\\[
\\sum_{x\\in V^{p}} P(x|x_{1:i-1})\\geq p
\\]
```
And it will look like this:
\\[
\\sum_{x\\in V^{p}} P(x|x_{1:i-1})\\geq p
\\]
I didn't like the way it's centered, this is not a scientific paper, so if you want to align it to the left, you can wrap the equation, again, directly in the markdown file with a `div` tag and add some CSS:
```html
\\[
\\sum_{x\\in V^{p}} P(x|x_{1:i-1})\\geq p
\\]
```
And it will look like this:
\\[
\\sum_{x\\in V^{p}} P(x|x_{1:i-1})\\geq p
\\]
*PS*: Of course, you can also add the CSS to your stylesheet. :^)