Support latex

[nilsocket]

It's 2019 now, Gitlab already has latex support in it's markdown flavor.

1. latex code block
2. latex inline

This feature is being requested from 2015.

So please, consider to support latex at-least now.

[edsonayllon]

I'd also like to see LaTeX for math equations.

[devmessias]

That would be great!

[MySiilf]

في خميس، 13 فبراير، 2020 في 2:39 ص، كتب bruno messias < notifications@github.com>:

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[drorata]

If I understand correctly, a markdown file is rendered by commonmarker as mentioned here. This means, that if math support (LaTeX) is desired, actually there are two options:

• Request this support at https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker. But it seems like it's not going to happen (comment). Or,
• Ask Github to use a different rendering tool.

Do I understand it correctly @kivikakk ?

Maybe related is #897

[kivikakk]

I think you’ve understood correctly, except that it’s extremely unlikely GitHub would change from commonmarker since they maintain its upstream. I no longer work at GitHub so I can’t really help further.

[drorata]

Do you mean https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm as the upstream?

[kivikakk]

Yep!

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[yves-chevallier]

I also wish GH to support equations in README.md. This a feature I would use every single day...

Just support equations like in Stack Exchange :

    $$x_{1,2} = -b\frac{\sqrt{b^2-4\cdot a \cdot c}{2a}$$

[evgenyneu]

Maybe related is #897

This issue was closed. Looks like Github Markdown people try to simply dodge the issue using "it's not my problem" argument and directing the complaints to a different department (which does the same thing). Pretty sad.

[kaelzhang]

Years have passed. Any updates for this?

If latex is supported, github will have the potential to become another ArXiv and more

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And also, maybe github should support online jupyter notebook for all languages

[twang15]

MS owns GitHub now..., will eventually ruin it.

[bschatz]

Markdown was never designed for extensions,
so it is probably to much effort to extend gfm for that.

Better choice here is to use RestructuredText/Sphinx
that already supports LaTex,
unfortunately github seems not to support rst very well.

[yves-chevallier]

@bschatz You don't realize how much this extension can change the world. It is not a matter of how much work it is but what this feature can unlock. All the scientific community could then use markdown (on GitHub), to display equations.

We all dream of being able to display equations on Markdown. It seems the only issue is a matter of security ? Then the picture could be rendered backend. Is it a problem?

[jessemodesto]

Equations used to work using this method:

https://gist.github.com/a-rodin/fef3f543412d6e1ec5b6cf55bf197d7b

However, just yesterday, none of the images render anymore. Equation formatting used to work just like LateX.

[cossio]

I would also like to have this.
Any updates?

[j7168908jx]

As requested by my boss, I've patched a little of commonmarker to support part of LaTeX math equations (using directly $ ... $ and $$ ... $$). If anyone is interested, please see my forked repo: https://github.com/j7168908jx/commonmarker

[abalter]

Please add this feature!

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[laymonage]

Using $\LaTeX$ is now supported!
https://github.blog/changelog/2022-05-19-render-mathematical-expressions-in-markdown/

[hotohoto]

$y = ax + b$ is rendered correctly.

but,,,

• $y = ax + b$

seems not working?

[drorata]

I can also confirm that:

• or maybe $z^2$

doesn't work. Probably this requires a new bug report ( #1546 )

[cossio]

Does this look too small?

$$\sum_{i=1}^N f_i$$

It does to me. Is there a way to make equations larger?

[abalter]

@cossio

$$2 \times \sum_{i=1}^N f_i$$

That's a little larger.

This should be quite a bit larger.

$$\sum_{i=1}^N (f_i)^2$$

[abalter]

@drorata Seems to work now.

$z^2$

[pkienzle]

Trying with unicode for some of the characters (∫_0^∞ \sum_{i=1}^n 2 π i q⋅r/ λ dr)

$$∫_0^∞ \sum_{i=1}^n 2 π i q⋅r/ λ \ {\mathrm d}r$$