How to cancel `--mathjax` argument for `blogdown::html_page` output?

[kymotz]

I wish to have equations stored as MathML on my static Blogdown site, so I wrote in my front matter (I use .Rmd extension to enjoy pandoc):

output: 
  blogdown::html_page:
    pandoc_args: --mathml

Which doesn't work and I still get <span class="math"> containing raw LaTeX in my output. I checked the console and I found --mathjax argument at the end of the command passed to pandoc. It read like

"C:/PROGRA~1/Pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS foo.md --to html4 --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output foo.html~ {{something unrelated}} --mathml {{something unrelated}} --mathjax

I think that default --mathjax overrode my --mathml. What should I do to cancel it? Thanks for any help.

[cderv]

Yes Mathjax is used by default in almost all the format. You need to deactivate it.

See help page for the format

An R Markdown output format for blogdown web pages — html_page

The function is based on bookdown::html_document2(), which is based on rmarkdown::html_document()

You'll find the mathjax argument that you need to set to NULL
So probably this would work

output: 
  blogdown::html_page:
    mathjax: NULL
    pandoc_args: --mathml

Hope it helps