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.
Markdown Support. In addition to LaTeX, our platform also supports Markdown, which is a convenient format for web content. Moreover, features like cross-referencing, bibliography and theorem environments have been implemented.
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 needs 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. |
