Notebook: WYSIWYG Math editor

Created on 10 Jul 2016 · 15Comments · Source: jupyter/notebook

Which emits latex:

https://github.com/mathquill/mathquill

I would strongly recommend to try the demo:

http://mathquill.com/

cc @jasongrout , @SylvainCorlay , @ellisonbg , @fperez

If we could have an inputhook in md cells to enter math formula this way, that would be an extremely nice feature.

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Carreau

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Just a quick question: if jupyter console is ported into LyX, and the "cell" is implemented by knitr, how many of you will be happy?

bethandtownes on 25 Jun 2019

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Very cool tool, though for me the best of this kind remains LyX. It lets you combine typing LaTeX that gets auto-rendered (like MathQuill) with having command palettes for more esoteric stuff you may not know/remember how to type in LaTeX.

That makes it incredibly powerful: if you know the commands, you just type along and it simply "compiles on the fly" to WYSIWYM ("What you see is what you mean", i.e. close enough visually to the final LaTeX render to be useful, but not pixel-perfect so it can be done on the fly without a full LaTeX call). But if you don't know something, you can use the palettes to visually create the piece you are missing. When I was doing lots more complex mathematical writing, it saved me endless amounts of poring over LaTeX docs, and I even used it often to answer colleagues' questions about how to do something in LaTeX: I would just open LyX, type/build up what they needed, and then view the raw LaTeX (which it will show you if you want) for the answer to copy/paste into a raw .tex file.

I've yet to find a system for math editing that I like better than LyX.

fperez on 10 Jul 2016

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You can see the HackerNew Thread :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065699 , arguably the command palette part is the easy part, as lomg as you have WYSIWYG movement end rendering, adding buttons that insert the right latex seem like the easy part.

This has a palette but the edition/redering are in 2 different area.

Having used LyX, I think http://mathquill.com/ is the closest to something that could eventually replace it that I have seen.

Carreau on 11 Jul 2016

This is truly amazing! I wrote my Ph.D. using LyX and it would be truly
incredible to have this in the notebook.

Cheers,

Brian

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Matthias Bussonnier <
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You can see the HackerNew Thread :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065699 , arguably the command
palette part is the easy part, as lomg as you have WYSIWYG movement end
rendering, adding buttons that insert the right latex seem like the easy
part.

This https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php has a palette but the
edition/redering are in 2 different area.

Having used LyX, I think http://mathquill.com/ is the closest to
something that could eventually replace it that I have seen.

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ellisonbg on 13 Jul 2016

yep, this would be absolutely amazing, i might take a look at it

topisani on 24 Sep 2016

+1
Is there any move/decision towards this direction ?

ragloo on 18 Mar 2017

+1
would be very useful. Mathquill implementation would be great.

terryphi on 11 Oct 2017

+1
I just thought about it myself... Nice to see someone already did.

ranr01 on 27 Mar 2018

Did this ever get integrated?

JustinGirard on 30 Apr 2018

+1. I think this will be very useful

bethandtownes on 6 Mar 2019

+1
this would be good, any news?

doppioslash on 8 Mar 2019

If we could have an inputhook in md cells to enter math formula this way

It might be useful to have inputhook for code cells as well. This may enable interactive editing of math in CAS like SymPy or Diofant, as the Mathematica currently does.