Plans for advanced LaTeX support? about mistletoe HOT 2 CLOSED

I love the idea. And yes, complete LaTeX support is definitely a thing I will be aiming for down the road.

The main hurdle for this, as I see it, is that as of this moment mistletoe only supports LaTeX elements when rendering to LaTeX. A current working example is LaTeX's inline math elements.

If I understand your proposal correctly, you seem to want LaTeX elements to be rendered into HTML. I also have this goal in mind, but doing so would involve some important design changes, of which I am not sure of the implications. Not saying that this can't be done -- I will probably open a branch and see what I can do -- but it certainly involves some careful planning.

Meaning that anyone could contribute a PR to do this

... by all means, please hack around, give a feature example and open a PR.

Thanks for this!

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Well it's actually easier than I expected. Take a look at the mathjax module under plugins: it should provide some rudimentary support for MathJax's syntax.

If you want math enclosed in parenthesis or brackets, you need to escape it twice: \\(1 + 1 = 2\\). Similarly with \def or macros, write it like this amidst your Markdown:

\\(
\def\RR{\bf R}
\def\bold#1{\bf #1}
\\)

\\( \RR \\) now gives you a bold-faced "R". To use MathJaxRenderer:

from plugins.mathjax import MathJaxRenderer

with open('foo.md', 'r') as fin:
    rendered = mistletoe.markdown(fin, MathJaxRenderer)

It does not support local packages, however, and I'm sure I haven't considered all the corner cases. But try it out, and let me know if there's something bugging you in particular.

I may try to integrate it more closely with mistletoe's core components, but that's for another issue.

Cheers!

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