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Guide-level document for GitHub is here: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/writing-mathematical-expressions
- Sole `$` at the end of line - Inline-level math expression cannot continue across lines - Block-level math expression can continue across lines
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Thanks! I'll take a look at review comments tomorrow. |
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@mattwidmann Yes, you're totally correct. I fixed the off-by-one error and test cases at 7123b76. |
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Hi, |
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@Schabolon Thanks. I fixed it at cbcdf26. $ echo '$\{1, \{2, \{3\}\}\}$' | cargo run -- -M -e
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.07s
Running `target/debug/pulldown-cmark -M -e`
0..22: Start(Paragraph)
1..20: Math(Inline, Borrowed("\\{1, \\{2, \\{3\\}\\}\\}"))
0..22: End(Paragraph)
EOF
$ echo '$\{1, \{2, \{3\}\}\}$' | cargo run -- -M
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.07s
Running `target/debug/pulldown-cmark -M`
<p><span class="math inline">\{1, \{2, \{3\}\}\}</span></p>
$ echo '$$\{1, \{2, \{3\}\}\}$$' | cargo run -- -M -e
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.07s
Running `target/debug/pulldown-cmark -M -e`
0..23: Math(Block, Borrowed("\\{1, \\{2, \\{3\\}\\}\\}"))
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Thanks a lot for the quick fix 👍 |
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Any chance this will be accepted soon? Math support is a needed feature for a project I am working on and I will soon have to choose a parser. Thanks. |
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I don't know why this PR cannot get a review from the maintainers. I guess they're super busy. If it is because no issue is filed for this PR, I'll make a new issue fixed by this PR soon. Let me know. @marcusklaas @raphlinus Meanwhile, I'm using pulldown-cmark = { git = "https://github.com/rhysd/pulldown-cmark.git", branch="math", default-features = false, features = [] } |
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I would love for this PR to go through, as my project needs math expressions, Thanks! |
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Can you say more about how the rendering is expected to work? Does this require MathJax? Is there some guidance on how to integrate it properly? Does this work with katex? |
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@ehuss This PR does not render the math expressions. It just parses the mathematical expressions notation at Markdown level. So it parses The
No. But some math expression renderer is at least necessary (MathJax, Katex, MathML, ...). MathML is a standard way to render math expressions, but they are implemented very recently on Chromium and not mature enough yet.
Yes. However I recommend to use MathJax because GitHub uses MathJax for rendering math expressions in Markdown.
No. But I can explain it for you. It is almost the same as raw HTML in Markdown document. $\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2$to <span class="math inline">\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2</span>To render this HTML element, you would load the element and MathJax library in the same page on your browser and call some MathJax's API to render the element's content as math expression. For the API, please see the official document. I think trying it on your side would be a good way to understand how it works. git clone https://github.com/rhysd/pulldown-cmark.git -b math
cd pulldown-cmark
echo '$\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2$' > test.md
cargo run -- -M < test.md # See the converted HTML from the Markdown file
cargo run -- -M -e < test.md # See the parsed events from the Markdown fileI don't know your use case. If you explain it, I may explain the usage better. |
I'm the maintainer of mdBook. It currently has MathJax support, which if I understand correctly, scans the entire page for delimiters and renders them. mdBook also supports plugins, such as mdbook-katex. I assume the largest benefit here is to avoid problems with escaping delimiters? What would the mathjax init code look like for basic usage? |
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Great to see more activity around this long-standing issue! I'm willing to work on this if any help is needed.
On this part, I'm not sure I agree. In LaTeX and markdown files alike, a common practice is to justify paragraphs to a width of e.g. 80 characters. Single newlines do not affect the output, even inside math expressions. Multiple newlines of course break paragraphs and should also break inline math.
There seems to be a divergence of behavior here between markdown files and issues/comments on GitHub. Comments preserve newlines from the raw text, but in markdown files this is not the case. This markup:
text and $math broken
into multiple lines$
renders in this comment as
text and $math broken
into multiple lines$
but is shown as math in a Gist: https://gist.github.com/ollpu/2b0e18b8fe20d76b97d9e89912f4df3e
It also works with Pandoc.
Since with pulldown-cmark single newlines are generally ignored, it would make sense to ignore them inside inline math as well.
There is subtlety with how newlines can start/end a math expression though. GitHub and Pandoc have different behavior: On GitHub, an inline math expression cannot start with a newline right after the $, but it can end with one before the closing $. (See the same Gist for examples of this) Pandoc is more consistent, and inline math can neither start or end with a newline – they are essentially treated the same as spaces for this purpose.
Escaped newlines (newline preceded by \) are another can of worms.
For what it's worth, I prefer following Pandoc over GitHub in this and other similar cases since the implementation is more mature, consistent and doesn't suffer from the robustness issues that GitHub did at least originally.
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Similarly, I support following
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Another common thing supported by both GitHub and Pandoc are display-mode math blocks inside a paragraph.
display $$\LaTeX$$ math
renders as
display
Likewise, both agree on not allowing empty lines inside display math blocks.
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b
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I'm eyeing a refactor to this PR branch to make math parsing kind of combine the logic of ItemBody::MaybeEmphasis and ItemBody::MaybeCode. #477 does something similar for inline math, but not display blocks. It seems like display math should behave a little closer to inline math and inline code, but just not do the whitespace checks.
What do you think @rhysd?
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I went ahead and implemented that. More details in the PR: rhysd#1
I'd rather not have a third competing PR to upstream, so hopefully we can converge on a good design here.
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I found another bug: When you want to parse this markdown:
math $$x$$This is not interpreted as math. I tested it with the latest version:
$ echo -e 'math \n$$x$$' | cargo run -- -m -e Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.04s Running `target/debug/pulldown-cmark -m -e` 0..13: Start(Paragraph) 0..5: Text(Borrowed("math ")) 5..6: SoftBreak 7..9: Text(Borrowed("$$")) 9..10: Text(Borrowed("x")) 10..12: Text(Borrowed("$$")) 0..13: End(Paragraph) EOF
I don't know if anybody saw this, but it still doesn't work.
I'm pretty sure it is not the default behaviour for most math-in-markdown implementations.
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Yeah, to be clear, I made a separate PR onto @rhysd's branch, but that is not incorporated here yet.
This case works with my version there though:
$ echo -e 'math \n$$x$$' | cargo run -- -m -e
Compiling pulldown-cmark v0.9.2 (/home/ollpu/git/pulldown-cmark)
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 3.77s
Running `target/debug/pulldown-cmark -m -e`
0..12: Start(Paragraph)
0..5: Text(Borrowed("math "))
5..6: SoftBreak
6..11: Math(Display, Borrowed("x"))
0..12: End(Paragraph)
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I'm sorry for the delay. I didn't have enough time to see each PRs I've created this week.
There seems to be a divergence of behavior here between markdown files and issues/comments on GitHub.
I didn't know this. Thank you for your PR. I'll take a look.
Syntax is based on pandoc's commonmark+math mode, i.e. https://github.com/jgm/commonmark-hs/blob/master/commonmark-extensions/test/math.md excluding the handling for balanced curly braces and how inline math can end in a newline (may be a bug? issue filed: jgm/commonmark-hs#110). Removes support for $`..`$ and simplifies whitespace/punctuation rules for inline math.
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Is there additional work that need to be done before merging ? $$
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@rambip That's good to note. I added such a case to the math spec in my branch. |
Math is an important feature but including it requires a big analysis of the options in syntax, features and implementations. Coordination with other projects using pulldown-cmark and supporting math like mdBook would also be desirable. Therefore, math support will not be included in the 0.10 version but it is a priority for the 0.11 version. |
I can understand that but "a big analysis" seems pretty vague to me. |
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There is no spec or roadmap yet, they are the first things to do and a survey of the possible options would be the first step for the spec. The survey is a 'help-wanted' thing and a different pull request or discussion could be opened to review the possible options and discuss them. Thanks! |
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I was starting to write a very early spec to have a starting point in a github pull request, but I just realized @ollpu had a decent one in his own pull request. I have listed some ambiguous cases where a survey could be usefull, but I don't know what to do with it. |
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
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Yeah, I've gotten myself familiar with the various approaches as well and the spec on my branch might be a good starting point. I've been busy the last week so I didn't have time to respond yet. I opened a PR to discuss the spec: #733 |
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
Simplify and parse math more like code spans
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
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Closing this in favor of #734. Thank you @notriddle for pushing forward the feature. |
Based on pulldown-cmark#622 and copied from https://github.com/ollpu/pulldown-cmark/tree/alt-math. Co-authored-by: rhysd <lin90162@yahoo.co.jp>
This PR adds support for mathematical expressions behind
Options::ENABLE_MATHflag, which was introduced to GitHub recently.This extension supports both inline-level and block-level expressions:
Inline-level: $\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2$ Block-level: $$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$They are rendered as follows on GitHub:
Inline-level:$\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2$
Block-level: