Inline LaTeX Addition

[Alan71]

You’re right, it works. I didn’t try to leave the current block’s focus.

[dzlg]

Is there any plan to add the feature of partial rendering of latex for each $$ not the whole block? For example in Obsidian, whenever the cursor move over the content between the $$, it goes into latex mode and then when it comes out, it renders it. The huge benefit of it is that when you have many inline latex in your block, well, everything becomes much more manageable and organized. Right now, I can’t know which one of my inline latex codes work and which one doesn’t. I have dissect them one by one by creating new blocks.

If we could get this feature of partial rendering within the block, it would be a huge plus for the math/physics/CS community.

[Razor]

Umm, what do you mean? it’s available for like 5 major releases

[dzlg]

No No, I didn’t mean the inline Latex itself. As you can see from the demo in Obsidian, if I have multiple inline Latex within the same block, whenever I move my cursor outside of the double dollar sign, it gets rendered instantly. And once I move my cursor inside each of them, only that math expression gets shown in the Latex format NOT all the others in the same block.

In Anytype, when there’s a inline Latex within a block, when the cursor is within the block, all the math expressions are shown in their Latex format. This gets problematic when you want to know

1. what you’ve written so far and what is missing; you have to move the cursor away from the block to see what’s been written so far.
2. If one of the expressions have a faulty Latex code, then the whole block doesn’t get rendered after you move the cursor and you have to manually edit and test each of the expressions to see which one has to be fixed.

[Razor]

yeah, I got it, not so easy to implement though

[Razor]

Can you make a separate feature request please? Need to look into it more precisely.

[dzlg]

Sure, I created one:

Partial rendering of inline Latex

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND? I’m not sure if I’m choosing a correct name for such a request but as of right now, Anytype treat inline Latex in a block all at once; meaning that if you have multiple instances of inline Latex in a block, and you move your cursor in the block, then all the math expressions come out of rendering to show their Latex code. However, what I’m proposing is that the Latex rendering happens independently for each of the expressions whenever the cursor is one them and left the o…

[Razor]

thanks!

[shagunb]

Yes please! Need inline LaTeX cause sometimes I dont need full equations, but short expressions. So a $$Latex_here$$ would be PERFECT.

[mmplx]

I believe the new request here was described in a confusing way. Inline LaTeX is certainly available since a few releases ago. What’s most needed is some kind of preview that renders your equation while you’re typing it. Obsidian is not a good example, it’s true that at least it keeps other inline equations in the same block rendered, but it doesn’t preview the equation that’s currently being edited, which is arguably the most important one to preview in its rendered state (for that you need to install the LaTeX Suite plugin). Better examples are Notion and Capacities.