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LaTeX in output cells slow to render
Sometimes takes a couple of minutes after first opening a Notebook and executing a few cells. Example: create a conda env using environment.yml then start running the User Manual Notebook. When you get to:
model1.showRates()
the output is rendered as
$$r_{A}\; (Reaction 5)$$
$$s\; (Reaction 8)$$
$$r_{B}\; (Reaction 6)$$
$$s\; (Reaction 7)$$
$$g_{B}\; (Reaction 2)$$
$$g_{A}\; (Reaction 1)$$
$$a_{B}\; (Reaction 4)$$
$$a_{A}\; (Reaction 3)$$
but then a few minutes later is processed typeset by MathJax.
Think the problem is that all existing LaTeX maths (in Markdown cells and in output cells saved within the Notebook) has to be be rendered before any newly-generated LaTeX maths can be (at least that's my guess) and there's a lot of this 'static' LaTeX math in the User Manual. Restarting the kernel once MathJax starts rendering new output doesn't change anything as the problem originates in Javascript land, not Python land, so the Python kernel is irrelevant.
NB I initially thought that the issue was due to the User Manual initially being marked as untrusted by Jupyter but that's not the problem: new LaTeX maths in untrusted Notebooks will render eventually.
Also, the following renders v. quickly if its the only content in a Notebook, adding weight to the idea that the quantity of static LaTeX maths in the Notebook file is a factor.
from IPython.display import display, Math
Math('\\frac{a}{b}')
No suggestions for fixes yet. Maybe if we could tell IPython.display.Math to use the local LaTeX install (whilst that's still a dependency) instead of MathJax things would render faster.
