How do I disable math rendering in Quarto when using Hugo?

[disidrosi]

Description

I am rendering .md files for a Hugo website using Quarto. I have katex rendering already configured on my Hugo website, but this conflicts with the default math rendering from Quarto.

Specifically, when I call quarto preview on a .qmd file included within my Hugo project, I get a js injection within the resulting .md file, which prevents Hugo from displaying math correctly. The js I'm talking about is the following:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/require.js/2.3.6/require.min.js" integrity="sha512-c3Nl8+7g4LMSTdrm621y7kf9v3SDPnhxLNhcjFJbKECVnmZHTdo+IRO05sNLTH/D3vA6u1X32ehoLC7WFVdheg==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-bLT0Qm9VnAYZDflyKcBaQ2gg0hSYNQrJ8RilYldYQ1FxQYoCLtUjuuRuZo+fjqhx/qtq/1itJ0C2ejDxltZVFg==" crossorigin="anonymous" data-relocate-top="true"></script>
<script type="application/javascript">define('jquery', [],function() {return window.jQuery;})</script>

If I remove these lines manually, everything works correctly. Obviously I'd like to control the behavior from the frontmatter of my .qmd file, and avoid the javacript injection altogether, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that correctly.

For reference, the frontmatter I am using is:

---
title: Some title here
date: '2024-08-31'
format: hugo-md
jupyter: python3
math: true
---

I tried adding tex_math_dollars: false to my frontmatter, thinking that this would control the underlying pandoc's behavior directly, but it doesn't work. Can anyone give me a suggestion on what I am doing wrong?

For reference, I am using Quarto 1.5.55 and Hugo v0.134.0+extended, rendering from VSCode using the official Quarto extension.

[mcanouil]

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? The goal is to make it as easy as possible for us to recreate your problem so that we can fix it: please help us help you! Thanks.

This being said, I would say to set html-math-method: plain.

---

You can share a self-contained "working" (reproducible) Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).
See https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#small-is-beautiful-aim-for-a-single-document-with-10-lines.

If you have multiple files (and if it is absolutely required to have multiple files), please share as a Git repository.

R	Python
````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: knitr --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{r} x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) y <- c(1, 4, 9, 16, 25) plot(x, y) ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````	````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: jupyter --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{python} import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25] plt.plot(x, y) plt.show() ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````

Additionally and if not already given, please share the output of quarto check within a code blocks (i.e., using three backticks ```txt), see https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#check.