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Wouldn't it be cool if DEV could render LaTeX?

Ben Halpern on March 09, 2020

Oh neat, you can. c=±a2+b2 c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} c=±a2+b2 Here's the code to produce that snippet: {% katex %} c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b...

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Andrew (he/him) • Mar 10 '20

\int\left(\frac{\omega \omicron^w}{\mathit{t}\hbar \alpha t'^s\cdot a_ma\mathbf{z}ing}\right)\int

Ben Halpern • Mar 10 '20

Ha!

Daan Wilmer • Mar 10 '20

Cool to see that

\text{\LaTeX} \in \text{Supported Features}

Basti Ortiz • Mar 10 '20 • Edited

👏👏👏

What a great feature! Thanks, @maestromac .

Mac Siri • Mar 10 '20

No problem 😊

Swastik Baranwal • Mar 10 '20

OMG! Fabulous!

Martí • Jan 4

Lemme see if it works...

{% katex %}
c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}
{% endkatex %}

hello $$\alpha=4$$ testing inline equation
testing double dollar notation

$$\text{This would be amazing}\longrightarrow \sqrt{x}$$

Martí • Jan 4

Ah crap without code block?

c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}

Martí • Jan 4

Does this work? $$\text{This would be amazing}\longrightarrow \sqrt{x}$$

Martí • Jan 4

Ah I see

\text{So inline equations not supported... still great!}

:)

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan • Mar 10 '20

Awesome!

It would also be great if we could get support for the double dollar sign notation:

$$x^2$$

I use this on my Jekyll blog, which also renders KaTeX :)

Ben Halpern • Mar 10 '20

Interesting...

Is that fully inline, so $$x^2$$ automatically becomes...

x^2

?

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan • Mar 10 '20

Yup, you can use it to generate both inline and block-level LaTeX:

This is $$x^2$$ a sentence.

Or:

$$x^2$$

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan • Mar 10 '20

There's a great tutorial on how to get it set up here: xuc.me/blog/katex-and-jekyll/

Michel Renaud • Mar 10 '20

Damn... I haven't used LaTeX since the mid-90s. :)

Ben Halpern • Mar 9 '20 • Edited

Charts would also be really cool. Comments in this thread have some good ideas on that matter...

ben image

What's the best charts library with a small bundle size?

Ben Halpern ・ Feb 28 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #javascript #webdev #dataviz

cartman • Sep 18 '20

test equation

c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} \\ e^{ i \pi } + 1 = 0

Binyamin Green • Mar 10 '20

Cool!

Ali Sherief • Mar 14 '20

Thank you! I was scratching my head wondering how to do this. This will enable math-related articles to be posted here.

Ganesh Prasad • Mar 10 '20

Cool stuff

Sharad Raj (He/Him) • Mar 10 '20 • Edited

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Holy Moly

jeikabu • Mar 10 '20

LaTeX was a major part of my stint in academia. Have something of a love/hate relationship with it, but this is a welcome feature, nonetheless.