The MathJax font folder is too big. Is there any way to compress it?
No, there is no simple way to make the fonts folder smaller. We have tried to make the fonts folder as small as possible, but in order to render math on some older browsers, you need image fonts, which take up most of the space. This is because you need an individual image file for each character in each font in each of a dozen different sizes, and each file must be at least the block size of the hard drive it is stored on (usually 4 kb). With nearly 30,000 separate image files, this adds up to a lot. Some users have suggested using a “sprite font” that has all the characters in a single image, from which MathJax could show only the particular character it wants. This is a nice idea, but it does not work well in practice (at least not if you want it to work reliably across multiple browsers). Since the image fonts are intended as a last resort for browsers whose functionality is not well behaved, relying on fancy CSS tricks to clip large images is not going to be a viable strategy. Thi
