Patchwork: Latex support with MathJax

Created on 27 Apr 2018 · 6Comments · Source: ssbc/patchwork

Is it possible to support Latex with MathJax (e.g. http://support.typora.io/Markdown-Reference/)? I think patchwork has great potential for academy people when latex support included.

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entron

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Patchwork is now using markdown-it via ssb-markdown for rendering and no longer depends on patchcore.

I found markdown-it-texmath, which should do the job. How hard would it be to add this @christianbundy?

mmckegg on 3 Dec 2018

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Can I suggest KaTeX instead?

It's not quite as complete as MathJax, but it's much faster.

daviewales on 11 Jun 2018

I would really like this feature as well and I think it would be great for academics like @entron said.

Some work has already been done about getting KaTeX support in Marked (here).

I think the path forward would be to put a PR in to ssb-marked to allow the LaTeX syntax and have it pass the text to a config function (like linixauowu66 did). And then put a PR in to patchcore that passes in KaTeX as that config function (in message.html.markdown: adding a line here probably).

If there's another way besides going through patchwork -> patchcore -> ssb-marked and back up, let me know... I'm guessing we could rework patchwork a little bit so that it does some parsing/rendering of its own (which potentially handles stuff like LaTeX and any other future ideas), and then passes the rest to patchcore (which passes it to ssb-marked) for htmlizing, but that sounds a little slow/bulky.

I know there has been discussion about where patchcore starts and ends (here)-- wondering where this issue lies. Would love to work on it if given some direction forward.

Thoughts @mmckegg (& everyone) ?

stripedpajamas on 17 Jun 2018

I think this is a really good feature to have :D

buoyantair on 17 Jun 2018

Patchwork is now using markdown-it via ssb-markdown for rendering and no longer depends on patchcore.

I found markdown-it-texmath, which should do the job. How hard would it be to add this @christianbundy?

mmckegg on 3 Dec 2018

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Yep, I think that would be simple to add. We could either add it to ssb-markdown or make it so that ssb-markdown can be extended (see %U8YJGELBqdawM01T4Kpzq10VKV8ciCdKq2h2kqjevtM=.sha256).