[MlMt] How to set math formulas?

leo mailmate at halloleo.hailmail.net
Wed Jan 8 04:07:47 EST 2025


Thanks Jeff.

Good to know that Outlook does _again_ its own thing…


On 8 Jan 2025, at 6:24, Jeff Bullard via mailmate wrote:

> The texmath bundle works for me too.  The only disappointing thing 
> about it is that people receiving email messages through Outlook or 
> through web access of their Exchange account just get a nonsense 
> string instead of a nicely rendered expression.  People receiving the 
> message through Apple Mail, Airmail, MailMate, and Spark can see it 
> rendered properly, however, but it’s just a shame that it doesn’t 
> render in Outlook since so many people use it.  The same state of 
> affairs applies to Mermaid graphs, too.
>
> Clearly this is not the fault of MailMate, but given that state of 
> affairs it is perhaps not a great idea to use the texmath or mermaid 
> functionality unless you know for sure that the recipient will receive 
> it rendered properly.
>
> —Jeff
>
> On 18 Dec 2024, at 17:09, Stephen Chong wrote:
>
>> I'm running MM 6052, and the texmath bundle is working OK. After 
>> installing it, in the settings window under the Composer tab, make 
>> sure to check that the "Math language" option is set correctly.
>>
>> You can then write things like:
>> ~~~
>> ```math
>> x_2 + \alpha^2 +\frac{1}{3}
>> ```
>> ~~~
>>
>> to get
>>
>> ```math
>> x_2 + \alpha^2 +\frac{1}{3}
>> ```
>>
>> Or inline using two backticks: ``x_2 + \alpha^2 +\frac{1}{3}``.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 Dec 2024, at 1:45, leo wrote:
>>
>>> Hello MailMate mates
>>>
>>> Is there any way to set math formulas in a LaTex-ish way?
>>>
>>> I saw [GitHub - mailmate/texmath.mmbundle: TeX math converted to 
>>> MathML](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/mailmate/texmath.mmbundle__;!!KwNVnqRv!Fv4kfJQ7FeM7BeV-YeOr0NuKtVVZu8dSpcz1YB88PSoKRiGp9KDkc99FPCRPEsgM_2J5Udnn6gOLY1POrH08$ 
>>> ), but I have no idea whether that is still up-=to-date or even how 
>>> to use it…
>>>
>>> Many thanks for pointers,
>>> Leo_______________________________________________
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