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Load Multiple External JavaScripts

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Goal

Same as the one in My CSS Settiings for Printing (1).

Problem

Having written a post on loading MathJax with a local configuration file, I previewed the print layout, saw that the font size was too small.1

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Cause

It didn’t take me long to identify the reason for the small font size. When I wrote that post, I didn’t aware of this problem.

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A “way” to get bigger fonts

One may adjust the zooming factor to “100%” to get a normal font size. However, this isn’t user-friendly.

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Moreover, this causes the right half of the line of HTML code to flow out of the page.

Is this problem browser-specific?

I’ll illustrate this problem with one more picture.

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From the above screenshot, one can expect that this problem exists in every web browser.

Learn from past experience

It took at least a minute for the system to regenerate the contents during a preview. Therefore, I tested things locally before doing any real modifications to the source code.

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Solution

A working script tag for embedding MathJax with a local configuration file 
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<head>
	<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="
	https://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML,
	https://vincenttam.github.io/javascripts/MathJaxLocal.js
	"></script>
</head>

By trial, I found that one couldn’t use whitespaces to indent the URLs — tabs (i.e. ‘\t’) should be used in this case. Luckily, in the source file responsible for loading external JavaScripts (i.e. source/_includes/custom/head.html), there’s no <head> tag, so one may simply break a line without indentation.

  1. Refer to MathJax Local Configuration File for details. ↩

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