How do I enable mathjax in bitbucket wiki?

Question

I put a private repository on Bitbucket.org, and this project needs some documentations that involve a lot of math stuff. I want to use Bitbucket Wiki and edit it in Markdown but how should I also enable MathJax to allow me to type in math equations in the markdown file?

The official documentation of bitbucket (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Use+a+wiki) does not seem to mention it. And I searched Google but found few useful results. Any idea?

Answer 1

As of January 2014, Bitbucket only supports MathJax in for restructuredText files.

There is an open feature request for MathJax in markdown files.

Answer 2

I also searched & searched a few hours and I could not find it. But you need to use the reStructuredText :math: interpreted text role. One example is given below:

:math:`E[(Y - g(X))^{2} | X = x]`

You can also set math as default and leave out :math: in the above markup.

.. default-role:: math