MathML with Pandoc

Previous post Since switching from MathJax to MathML to render equations here on ANIAT, I’ve tried several approaches to generate the MathML. There are many utilities and libraries that claim to do the conversion, but I’ve found all of them to be limited in one way or another. For a while, I was even writing MathML directly, albeit with the help of some Typinator abbreviations, because I couldn’t trust the converters to generate the correct characters or even understand some LaTeX commands I use regularly. Recently, I began using what I should have started out with: Pandoc. It’s not that I wasn’t aware of Pandoc. Its famous in the Markdown/HTML/LaTeX world, and I probably first heard of it shortly after its release. But I’ve always thought of it as a document converter, not an equation converter. I was wrong. It’s very easy to use with a single equation. pandoc --mathml <<<'$$T = \frac{1}{2} v_x^2$$' produces

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