embedding of latex symbols

[samoht]

Just a random idea: it would be cool to be able to embed arbitrary latex formulas in a markdown document, using a special syntax (and extension ?).

One idea would be to generate images using an external tool and then embed the images of the formulas in the document.

[Chris00]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:03:03 -0800, Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:

Just a random idea: it would be cool to be able to embed arbitrary
latex formulas in a markdown document, using a special syntax (and
extension ?).

Agreed. One can of course use a preprocessing step transforming it to
HTML.

One idea would be to generate images using an external tool and then
embed the images of the formulas in the document.

Or, better, using mathjax.

[tinara]

You can actually embed latex formulas with mathjax but you will have to escape some characters in your markdown file. For example,
An inline formula on the .md file (using \(...\)for inline code instead of $...$ because it's off on a raw mathjax config) :

foobar \\(y\_\{23\} = \(x^3 + 1\)^3 \\) barz baz

OMD will render it :

 <p>foobar \(y_{23} = (x^3 + 1)^3 \) barz baz</p>

or a bloc code :

 $$ \\sum\\limits\_\{i=0}^n i^3 $$

will renders

 <p>$$ \sum\limits_{i=0}^n i^3 $$</p>

And finally mathjax renders it correctly. We can't use raw bloc because, it puts the...between ... ` and Mathjax don't parse it. It will be easier to have an special syntax to "real raw blocs" we don't want omd touch or parse.

[pw374]

related to #115 : see the discussion there for "real raw blocks"

[nojb]

Moved this one to #205