I think equation support will be very useful to students taking notes, writing reports etc. and it is a very common feature in many of the popular note-taking applications.
Supporting KaTex syntax for inline equations as $E = mc^2$ and a block beginning and ending with $$ for block equations should make the exported markdown files from other popular application compatible with anytype in terms of displaying equations.
I get the impression that equation support is a highly requested feature form the Telegram group but I have not seen a request posted here so I thought I’d make one for others to upvote.
@attie Thank you for going through the trouble to make a proper feature request here. It is definitely a highly requested feature we are all looking forward to.
Currently there is the LaTeX block which occupies a whole 2 or 3 lines of text. What would be cool is to have also an option for inline LaTeX code to integrate along with regular written text. Here is a simple example:
Yes! I’d like to see this happen too, along with a keyboard shortcut that toggles between LaTeX and normal text, like Notion’s Ctrl + Shift + E or Obsidian’s $ $.
This! Perhaps the inline latex block could be more of a way of formatting text than a ‘block’ (similar to what inline codeblocks are like today), if you type ‘$’ around some text it could turn into a LaTeX block, render out its content & let you edit it if your cursor moved back into it (either by turning back into its formula text when your cursor was on it (I don’t have a good example of an editor that I’ve used that does this out of the box, but from experience with a custom EMACS config it works pretty well) or opening a box similar to notion’s formula box).
+1. I think it would be nice if $ would generate inline equations and $$ would generate block equations. This syntax should also be used when exporting to Markdown because Markdown converters such as Pandoc can translate these to LaTeX equations again.
