I love Notepad++

30 Jun 2016

A while back Github Pages upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. As a result, only kramdown is supported for Jekyll sites hosted on Github Pages.

Seeing as I didn’t pay close attention to what was going on, I spent a while very confused and frustrated trying to figure out why all my MathJax wasn’t displaying properly. Once I figured out what the upgrade was doing, I spent some more time confused and frustrated trying to fix the problem.

This blog post by Toban Wiebe explained what was going on in words I can grok. Unfortunately, I am one of those people with a lot of old posts to convert.

I’ve been reading through “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python” this summer, so I figured this was a perfect project - write a Python script to convert redcarpet-acceptable delimiters like \\( and \\{ to kramdown-acceptable delimiters like $$ and \{. I started down that path, and even got as far as figuring out the appropriate regular expressions and writing a first draft of a script.

Then I remembered that Notepad++ (my preferred text editor) has a “Replace All in All Opened Documents” function. Like any good myopic optimizer, I stopped writing that script immediately and pulled up Notepad++.

Problem solved. Hooray for Notepad++!

(It seems like MathJax doesn’t always load with the page anymore, but a couple refreshes solves the problem. Not sure what’s up with that.)