for those of us in the PST who sometimes need to use formulas?
2 years ago
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That would be nice! I haven't used LaTeX for 20 years, but I guess it would be easy to get into it again.
However, I wonder how many people here are familiar with LaTeX?
I will ask. But for now, can you use an external latex editor and put the resultany formula in as either in quotes or as a picture?
Alan
Sure can do that. quicklatex is pretty good to generate things on the fly. I don't know how to 'quote it' but one can definitely take a screenshot of the result. If one makes a mistake one needs to start from scratch though.
How often will it be used?
Alan
I think it would get decent use in the PST, I doubt it would elsewhere.
I'll add it to the feature request link. But it won't be the highest priority thing
Alan
Given that Latex to markdown is already common (for instance, in Wikipedia) it should be trivial, but then we have so many tasks that any of them isn't trivial right now.
Like this:
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Indeed.
What I meant was that there's a workaround - which might not be ideal - but is functional.
Misago uses a subset of Python-markdown. It is possible to include extensions through the use of plugins to extended the built in functionality.
Amongst the third party extensions are various math/latex extensions.
Although the editor would require modification to cleanly support it, the backend functionality can be added with a relatively simple plugin. Discussion here for an example to include table support.
MathJax www.mathjax.org/ worked great even on a simple webpage the last time I used it. It is Javascript based, I do not know if the browsers now support it.
python-markdown-math is a plugin that misago could use to support mathjax in it's markdown.
