Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Editing/Missing LaTeX capabilities for math rendering

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Missing LaTeX capabilities for math rendering

• Problem: Some of the basic LaTeX features required for writing esthetic math formulae seem to be unavailable, like the \phantom and its variants to adjust horizontal / vertical spaces. For instance the enumeration $-e{\sqrt {p}},\;-e'{\sqrt {p'}},\;\ldots$ (from this page) exhibits a badly shaped square root, where one expects a formula like $-e{\sqrt {p^{\begin{array}{l}\!\!\\\end{array}}}},\;-e'{\sqrt {p'}}\ldots$, which one would normally write using a \vphantom{p'} in the first square root to adjust its vertical size to that of the second square root. And how complex would be the possible usage of some additional LaTeX packages like bigint for large integrals, in order to display properly formulae like integrals on this page?
• Proposed solution: I'm wondering why some of the basic LaTeX features, like the \phantom mentioned above, or raisebox, can't be used?
• Who would benefit: Readers of scientific articles on Wikipedia or scientific books on scientific texts on Wikisource.
• More comments: The display of math formulae is also not always satisfactory, see the Improve LaTeX rendering proposal
• Phabricator tickets:
• Proposer: F0x1 (talk) 17:04, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

• Totally agree. We could even continue the list : \hfill, \hdots, \substack, \smash and many environments (e.g. multline, split) from amsmath. — ElioPrrl (talk) 22:04, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
• This seems like a consensus needed kind of request, not per community but with the math community (which is generally available on Phabricator already). --Izno (talk) 21:27, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support War (talk) 04:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support THainaut (talk) 11:02, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — ElioPrrl (talk) 11:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support EijiroSaito (talk) 13:30, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support This is not only useful for math related stuff. Trilemma2 (talk) 14:06, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Raymonde Lanthier (talk) 14:14, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Bischnu (talk) 14:15, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Mbrickn (talk) 15:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Wostr (talk) 19:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 12:01, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Full support, desperately need better capabilities for Wikisource. Alan ^Talk 13:35, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Ruthven (msg) 15:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Thingofme (talk) 15:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support FoBe (talk) 21:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Wecoc (talk) 00:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support BugWarp (talk) 02:33, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Lfstevens (talk) 06:50, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Hb2007 (talk) 15:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Havang(nl) (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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•  Support LordPeterII (talk) 22:29, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support WikiAviator (talk) 10:10, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Rotavdrag (talk) 11:19, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support The Grid (talk) 13:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 19:56, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 05:21, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Thepuglover (talk) 11:09, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 14:05, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support SD hehua (talk) 15:13, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 21:32, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Metuboy (talk) 21:49, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 05:37, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — DaxServer (t · c) 12:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Andreas von Stackelberg (talk) 21:28, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Toadspike (talk) 01:19, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Tom Ja (talk) 18:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 20:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
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•  Support Trlit (talk) 03:39, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 17:06, 11 February 2022 (UTC)