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jhuix / vscode-markdown-preview-showdown

A excellent markdown preview extension for Visual Studio Code.
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Feature to export the document as a Latex file #9

Closed sebi5361 closed 4 years ago

sebi5361 commented 4 years ago

... AsciiMath to Latex ... version of the js module ...

As I understand there is an intermediate state before rendering with some AsciiMath to Latex conversion. Thus is there and easy way to offer a feature of exporting the document to a Latex file?

I really don't know how complicated this might be, especially as your viewer supports many charts that might not be convertible to Latex easily. I don't know.

Still this additional feature would be neat! But it might be over the scope of vscode-markdown-preview-showdown as it is at first a viewer (it has already some export options though).

jhuix commented 4 years ago

I'm not sure know what tools are available to convert HTML or PDF file into tex file. Pandoc？ Do you have any good suggestions?

sebi5361 commented 4 years ago

Giving more thoughts to this, I think the best option would be to offer users a possibility to export .md files to, let's call them, .pandoc-proof.md files, meaning .md files that can be used by pandoc as inputs for further conversions.

What I mean by this, is that I don't see options today in pandoc to convert AsciiMath+markdown files in other formats, as AsciiMath is missing from the conservation possibility list. Thus generating a .pandoc-proof.md files where all AsciiMath formulas have been substituted by their Latex equivalent formulas would be a must.

This could also hold for all the graphs your viewer is capable of rendering: Generating a .pandoc-proof.md where all graphs have been substituted by links to their rendered pictures, could be useful to some users.

I am interested by the AsciiMath aspect only today, but the other aspects might interest other people.

I believe internally, translating AsciiMath formulas to Latex formulas is already done in a intermediate step hidden to users. Indeed, while playing with the delimiter settings I saw that case where entering deltax in my markdown file resulted in \delta x being displayed this way on the preview panel. I forgot what the delimiter settings I entered at that time , and couldn't figure out how to reproduce this situation, but I am pretty sure I saw it.

So maybe generating that .pandoc-proof.md file is not that big of a deal for you and would be a neat feature. Up to us then, the users, to translate that .pandoc-proof.md file in the formats we want...