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 (from this page) exhibits a badly shaped square root, where one expects a formula like , 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)[reply]

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