LaTeX in Slack in Chrome with OffiDocs

DESCRIPTION

Renders LaTeX math formulas in Slack.

Similar to the Chrome extension math-with-slackb, except this plugin uses the KaTeX library instead of MathJax for better compatibility with the latest version of Slack.

Usage instructions: Mostly works like standard LaTeX.

Default delimiters are as follows (this avoids issues with dollar signs being used for other purposes): Inline math: \( .

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\) $$ .

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$$ Display math: \[ .

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\] $$$ .

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$$$ Alternatively, in the options of the extension one can also choose to work with the usual LaTeX delimiters: Inline math: \( .

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\) $ .

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$ Display math: \[ .

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\] $$ .

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$$ Newlines in formulas can be inserted with \newline.

Double backslash \\ is ignored.

Blackboard bold letter shorthands: \R is short for \mathbb{R} \N is short for \mathbb{N} \Z is short for \mathbb{Z} Downloads: Firefox: https://addons.

mozilla.

org/nl/firefox/addon/latex-in-slack/ Chrome: https://chrome.

google.

com/webstore/detail/latex-in-slack/pfcfelfnpbnboelkjedecjipaibpnfja Troubleshooting: 1. Slack uses _ for _italics_ and * for *boldface*.

This can interfere with your LaTeX formatting if your message has multiple underscores or asterisks in it.

The developers of Slack are not big on having a consistent way to escape these special characters, but you can try: a) escaping using two backslashes: $$\bar\chi^{\\*}\\_W$$ A single backslash is interpreted by the LaTeX rendering library as part of a command, but two of them will be ignored.

b) putting spaces around it: $$\bar\chi^ * _ W$$ 2. Sometimes Slack does something funny to double space " " making the plugin unable to recognize a piece of LaTeX that contains it, like $$\R $$.

Plugin by Sophie Huiberts and Bento Natura (2019-2020).

Option to choose $/$$/$$$ delimiters added by Nicolas Boumal (2020).

Licenced under the MIT licence.

katex.

js is taken straight from the KaTeX project, from the url https://cdn.

jsdelivr.

net/npm/[email protected]/dist/katex.

js as indicated by https://katex.

org/docs/browser.

html auto-render.

js is adapted from the KaTeX project: https://github.

com/KaTeX/KaTeX/blob/master/contrib/auto-render/auto-render.

js This plugin is not associated with the KaTeX project nor with Slack or Slack Technologies, Inc.

Additional Information:

- Offered by Sophie Huiberts
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