# Enable discourse-math plugin for rendering LaTeX-style equations

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/enable-discourse-math-plugin-for-rendering-latex-style-equations/1372>\
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**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/enable-discourse-math-plugin-for-rendering-latex-style-equations/1372 "2022-10-11T16:44:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/enable-discourse-math-plugin-for-rendering-latex-style-equations/1372/8 "2022-10-11T17:58:33Z")

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Greg Vernon via Racket Discussions  
[notifications@racket.discoursemail.com](mailto:notifications@racket.discoursemail.com) writes:

> There's an official Discourse plugin (link below) that would allow for users to post LaTeX style equations and have them rendered. As far as I can tell, this plugin is not enabled on this Discourse (test: x^2 ). Would have made [my first post](https://racket.discourse.group/t/plotting-a-lambda-that-returns-a-math-matrix-vector/1365) look a bit cleaner.
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> For example this `$\mathbf{N}^p(\xi) = [N_0^p(\xi), N_1^p(\xi), \dots, N_p^p(\xi)]^T$` would have rendered as
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/racket/original/1X/b3c71ff61ddd9c11a81941d063beae337570fbe2.png)
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> but nicer (e.g., no background, same size as text).
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> I would have uploaded the equations as images, as I've done on this post, but as a new user I could only upload a single image.
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> [Discourse Math - plugin - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math/65770)

My comment is not so much about math per se, but more generally I'd  
prefer the postings (which I read as a mailing list) remain as close to  
plain text as possible. I understand most people use the web interface  
(or at least read mail as HTML), and might feel differently about more  
structured posting, but even the [quote] etc... markup causes my eyes to  
glaze over and my fingers to consider unsubscribing.

Just my 2 ¢

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