Is it possible to change the math mode delimiters?

Question

Is it possible to change the math mode delimiters?

metasim opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Trying to switch to katex from MathJax, but all my docs use single $ for inline math mode. Can this be configured in katex?

Emil Bay · Answer 1 · Mon Sep 07 2015 20:45:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

~~@metasim See discussion in #1~~ Sorry, was too quick. This is about delimiters and not the different modes

Ｖ字龍(Vdragon) · Answer 2 · Wed Oct 05 2016 22:28:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm recently using the $ $ notation and have the same question.

Tarik Graba · Answer 3 · Wed Oct 04 2017 00:52:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It would be nice if we could change delimiters so we can adapt to different markdown flavor/tools.
For example, I'm currently using GitLab and they have chosen $` `$ as delimiters as you can see here and here rendered correctly.

Luke Janicke · Answer 4 · Sat Oct 07 2017 17:10:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I would also like single $ delimiters for inline and double $$ delimiters for display. I thought this was the most common convention anyway. It is more compact and lets you use display mode in a sentence, for those odd occasions where you don’t want compact presentation inline.

Compare the following two examples.

CURRENT BEHAVIOUR

This is a fraction $$\frac{1}{2}$$.

This is a fraction:

$$
\frac{1}{2}
$$

DESIRED BEHAVIOUR

This is a fraction $\frac{1}{2}$.

This is a fraction:

$$\frac{1}{2}$$

As an added extra, it would be good if using double $$ delimiters inline forced display mode (i.e. not compact) but kept it inline.

This is a compact (inline mode) fraction $\frac{1}{2}$.
This is a full size (display mode) fraction $$\frac{1}{2}$$.

This is a fraction:

$$\frac{1}{2}$$