It seems that this extension only support math code intellisense inside dollars sign. It will be lovely if \[\] and \(\) are also supported.
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[ ] Math rendering --- _upstream_
https://github.com/waylonflinn/markdown-it-katex
[ ] Intellisense (auto-completion) --- _help wanted_
https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown/blob/850f2aaa30d50e7d3b6b42fc37c19f0d2ed254d5/src/completion.ts#L469-L481
[ ] Toggle math environment --- _help wanted_
https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown/blob/850f2aaa30d50e7d3b6b42fc37c19f0d2ed254d5/src/formatting.ts#L191-L199
BTW, defining your own snippets is recommended as we need to add a new option to control the delimiter order if we choose to use the above command.
It can be done, although we haven't supported \(\) syntax yet
Another reason why especially \[...\] should be supported is because $$ is deprecated:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/503/why-is-preferable-to
Another reason from #616 ($ used inside KaTeX mhchen extension).
Upstream package https://github.com/waylonflinn/markdown-it-katex
When will have this new feature done?
(I've updated the issue description.)
has this been fixed yet?
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It can be done, although we haven't supported
\(\)syntax yet