Show HN: Markdown + LaTeX math in the browser

People in this thread may also find GmailTex useful. It's a browser plugin which enables using LaTeX syntax in Gmail and GChat.<p><a href="http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html" rel="nofollow">http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html</a><p>P.S.: This Socrates thing is pretty fantastic. Is there a keyboard shortcut for switching to the compiled view?

I tested it on Chromium (the FOSS version of Google Chrome), and in that browser, the math uses a much smaller font than the Firefox version. (Firefox looks "right.")<p>I'm using Linux Mint 14 (the most recent version), the default version of Chromium from the distribution's repo; all packages are up-to-date, and I don't have any browser extensions or any intense customization.

I recommend upgrading to the latest release of marked ( <a href="https://github.com/chjj/marked/tree/v0.2.8" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chjj/marked/tree/v0.2.8</a> ). It has a few improvements as well as GFM tables.

This is cool. I wanted to do a blog post on some real estate appraisal topics, which requires math examples. Is this open source? Where I can I find socrates.io - it goes straight to the interface.

That's cool. I was using markable.in in last weeks. But lack of code highlighting and Mathjax brings socrates.io on the first place :)

I wrote a LaTeX Markdown plugin as well, but it served a different purpose. It was geared for offline documents.<p><a href="https://github.com/justinvh/Markdown-LaTeX" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/justinvh/Markdown-LaTeX</a><p>It generates inline/base64-encoded images with a small file-cache for the generated images. Try it out!

There used to be a similar service at <a href="http://notepag.es/" rel="nofollow">http://notepag.es/</a> However, it seems to be down now.

Really wish they used Pandoc Markdown or some other form of extended Markdown... then I could consider using it for real stuff,

Why not use jqMath? It's latex based, 10 times smaller, and 10 times faster than MathJax - which is aimed more at publishers.

I've been working on something just like this! It is a mashup of Ghost&#60;john.onolan.org/ghost/&#62;, and a editor like this. If you was to see the uncompleted version its here: <a href="http://quaz3l.github.com/ghost/g-admin/posts.html" rel="nofollow">http://quaz3l.github.com/ghost/g-admin/posts.html</a>

If you think this is cool, check out <a href="http://spandex.io/" rel="nofollow">http://spandex.io/</a>

Oh man, this is really cool. Great job. I'm the co-founder of <a href="http://SpanDeX.io" rel="nofollow">http://SpanDeX.io</a> (which I see someone already commented about) and we love seeing this kind of stuff. Great to see LaTeX getting implemented in a really useful way!

In the end, how should I use this product? Writing Latex before compiling the final thing on your PC?

I wish it had better support for live editing, but this is really a limitation of MathJax / TeX in general. Still, I wonder if it might be possible to improve the experience a bit by e.g. only updating when I close a $$ block, etc.

Does this mean you can only see the math in Socrates? How do you publish a page on the web outside Socrates?

this looks nice, but i'm confused.. how do i actually use it on my webpage?

It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be any export option.

This is great!!

LOVE it!