Allow MathJax use in notes

moorepants
I'd really like to type mathematical equations in notes for each entry. Can Mathjax be enabled for rendering mathematics in the notes?
  • adamsmith
    if TinyMCE (the note software) supports MahtJax it may be possible to do that in the future - Zotero is not currently using the most recent version. If TinyMCE doesn't have support then almost certainly no.
  • moorepants
    MathJax is simply a javascript lib that can be loaded via cdn or local install. Most webpages that use TinyMCE and Mathjax only show the MathJax renderings on the view version of the text (i.e. doesn't render dynamically in TinyMCE).

    Some things like this seem to exist: https://github.com/efloti/plugin-mathjax-pour-tinymce (allows rendering the math in tinymce).
  • moorepants
    Here is a live demo: http://tinymath.albert-thomas.org/
  • dstillman
    That's pretty cool. The main issue with integrating it is that the shortcut key to toggle the render mode wouldn't be discoverable, and I don't love the idea of adding another palette icon that only a very small fraction of people will use.

    There's not too much of a downside to integrating with the shortcut key, of course — it just would likely get very little use.
  • moorepants
    Why do you think it will get little use? In all of the sciences there is math in the papers that are stored in Zotero. Math is crucial for good communicatiion about scientific literature. MathJax is now the defacto implementation of communicating with mathematical notation in HTML and is supported by the American Mathematical Society (among others). The notes in Zotero are the only way to communicate to yourself or others about the items in the database, that stays with the database (as opposed to writing on paper, scanning it, and attaching it). I don't have any data to prove it, but my guess would be that it would be used a lot.
  • adamsmith
    Yeah - I'd consider a mathJax button more useful than the right-align button that we currently have, e.g.
  • balabi
    any progress on adding mathjax in zotero notes now? Really need this feature
  • adamsmith
    No -- I'd guess this would have to be a third party patch if it's going to happen soon.
  • dualer
    any progress on adding mathjax in zotero notes now? Really need this feature
    +1
  • jmandreoli
    Support for latex math in notes would be a major advantage for zotero.
  • haccanri
    Need this feature too.
  • zhengfengran
    edited August 2, 2019
    It seems like If I copy a mathjax equation from web and paste it in a blank note，can't see anything，but on the middle panel The equation can display in the title of the note correctly！ that means the mathjax rendering engine is already have in zotero，correct？but only not available in note？
  • emilianoeheyns
    If you use bibtex and have BBT installed, you can get hacky mathjax support with a postscript.

    Report customizer adds MathJax support for reports.
  • zhengfengran
    thanks,
  • carlee0
    Thanks for making Zotero. It is really a great tool! Would love to have mathjax support. :)
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