Functor Network

a blog platform for mathematicians

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What is Functor Network

Functor Network is a blog platform for mathematicians. The term mathematician here is in a broad sense, including people studying math at any level as well as professionals in related fields. While we offer special support for mathematicians, anyone can register a blog site on our platform and express themselves on a variety of topics, whether they're related to math or not.


Features

In one word, all features are meticulously crafted for mathematicians.

  • Effortless Typesetting. Typesetting math on the web can be exhausting and time-consuming. However, on our platform, you can focus on your content creation and leave the typesetting to us.

  • Actual TeX Engine. Our platform might be the only blog platform that renders mathematical content with an actual TeX system (TeX Live). This means that you are able to include LaTeX packages, use math environments, or even copy and paste your existing LaTeX document into our platform.

  • Convenient Document Formats. On our platform, you can write your blog post in either Pure LaTeX or Markdown with LaTeX. Regardless of the format you choose, features like cross-referencing, bibliographies and theorem environments are always available.

  • Minimalist Spirit. Only essential features are included in our platform, so you can hold a clean, efficient, and secure personal blog.


Comparison

We make a comparison with other blog platform to clarify our features:

Our platform Other platforms
writing post directly in latex supports don’t support
math formula rendering has built-in support don’t support or need add-ons to support
keep latex code unchanged yes may eat backslashes, encode <, & and other math symbols
latex packages supports. You can use different latex packages for each post separately don’t support
automated numbering and referencing supports. You can use \label{} and \ref{} for this. don’t support or partially support
custom latex commands supports. You can define your own latex command for each post. maybe support
theorem-like environments supports don’t support
bibliography supports maybe support
math-featured markdown supports maybe support, but have limited features on math
clean and neat Yes. Our platform is designed with minimalism in mind. It even looks a bit abstract. may have many unnecessary functions
editor provides a plain text editor with a preview window. You can focus more on the content itself rather than its appearance. provide a WYSIWYG editor. This kind of editor may be annoying when handling math content.

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