LaTeX rendering

[Michael Hatherly]

Thanks for the package! Would be really great if rendering of LaTeX equations was possible out of the box, perhaps by passing a LaTeXString object as the children of a node. If this isn't suitable for inclusion in the core packages could I get some hints regarding building/using custom components with Dash.jl? I'm happy to contribute this back to the package if it's doable.

[Jack Parmer]

Plotly figures support Latex generation, so one way to do this would be to generate a blank Plotly figure with a LaTeX annotation. Here's an example:

https://plotly.com/~jackp/18758/

Removing everything but the annotation gives you this:

https://plotly.com/~jackp/18760/

Doesn't appear that Latex or annotations are documented yet on http://juliaplots.org/PlotlyJS.jl/ yet (@sglyon), so you'll have to infer from the analogous Python docs (the syntax is similar).

An alternative approach would be to publish your own Dash component using something like react-latex as the starting point. Here's the process for turning React components into Dash components: https://dash.plotly.com/plugins

[Michael Hatherly]

An alternative approach would be to publish your own Dash component using something like react-latex as the starting point. Here's the process for turning React components into Dash components: dash.plotly.com/plugins

We went with wrapping a mathjax component in the end, which is working out fine. I'll close this now since it's not really necessary to have the feature in any official dash package.