No autoformat for math

[dcfreire]

Inserting inline math does not have autoformat syntax. In most markdown editors and also latex, inline math is added using $someexpression$. It would be great if we could write math expressions by using dollar signs, seeing as it is so common that most will type math in this format by reflex, I assume.
Also in this topic, math-blocks would be great.

[zadam]

Hi, I created an issue for this in the relevant library: isaul32/ckeditor5-math#11

As a sort of similar work flow you can use CTRL-M shortcut to show the math dialog.

Also in this topic, math-blocks would be great.

Do you mean this?

That's controlled with "Display mode" in the dialog ...

[dcfreire]

That is what I mean, yes. But I think math-blocks need to have a bigger input box than inline math.

As you can see, it can get pretty crowded, even when doing something simple. I'm also not able to break lines, so it gets pretty difficult to read.

Should this issue be opened on the ckeditor math repo too?

[zadam]

Ok, yeah, that would make sense.

Yes, this would have to be implemented in ckeditor5-math so I think it makes sense to open an issue there as well.

[dcfreire]

There was already a similar issue there, so I just replied to it.

[martinkoutecky]

@zadam @funnisquares I have a similar request so let me hijack this thread... ZIM desktop wiki has an autoformat feature where automatically upon writing e.g. \alpha or \le plus space, it replaces them with the corresponding UTF-8 symbols α and ≤.

I like this feature very much (while keeping the option of writing "real" math by pressing Ctrl-M or, ideally, between dollar signs). It seems that it might not be that hard extending ckeditor in this way (creating a custom inline autoformatter). What would be the best way to go about having this functionality in Trilium?

[zadam]

@martinkoutecky best way would be probably to open a PR in ckeditor5-math repo ...

[grissiom]

@zadam , ck-math has added this feature in 23.3.0 (isaul32/ckeditor5-math#11 , https://github.com/isaul32/ckeditor5-math#display-mode), but the autoformat feature is still not ready in trilium-0.47.5 . Maybe we need some configuration for ck-math?

[zadam]

Hi, you're right, extra plugin needed to be enabled. Will be in the next release. Thanks for the heads up.