Automatic equation numbering (Latex Math)

[danbburg]

There are now several feature requests that are all essentially the same - additional control over MathJax initialization and extensions. In addition to this one I found the following:

MathJax extensions

As Silver and StrachuDotNet recommended it on Discord, I’m opening a feature request for MathJax extensions: here is my original post from Discord. I’m a total newbie to Obsidian, loving it so far! But would it be possible to use MathJax extensions (like color.js , etc: some of them are crucial for me (especially xypic for commutative diagrams))? Usually, the way it’s done in javascript, if I’m not mistaken, is to go something like this: <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Conf…

Support for Additional LaTeX Packages

I wanted to request support for loading and using additional LaTeX packages. For example, I often need to embed chemical equations within my notes using the mhchem package. I’m not sure if this would be implemented behind-the-scenes or through the custom CSS, but would love to see a toggle or option for this. Thanks so much!

MathJax plugins

It’d be nice if we could somehow specify which plugins the MathJax engine should use. I’m talking about things like mhchem, physics and other extensions listed on this page in MathJax docs. I think there could be a global setting in preferences that would turn these on; I don’t believe it’s needed to have this on a per-file basis.

In my opinion these should all be merged since they all deal with the fine-grain control of MathJax. If these are implemented 1-by-1 I worry that the solution will be a bit inflexible. Since MathJax is a core feature I think these should be also, but if not this topic should motivate the plugin API to be able to handle these use cases.