problem with math formulas in abstract and title

[hugoblox]

problem with math formulas in abstract and title

[gcushen]

Unfortunately, this behaviour is related to how Hugo parses the file.

However, we can workaround this by adding an extra backslash before each LaTeX backslash in the abstract. I will try to document this in the README file.

For example, I just tested $\\rm \\LaTeX$ in the abstract and it is working fine 😃 .

For speed, math is only enabled on a per page basis in the page +++ preamble. If you wish to also use it in titles, then math would need to be enabled for the whole site (if you wish the LaTeX to render correctly on the homepage and list pages like /publications/). Do you have many publications with math in the title? I will consider adding a global math parameter.

[ssemigr]

I see. One possibility is, as you say, to escape , the other is to remove markdownify when including abstract and title. It really depends on the use case.

I have a few titles with math formulas. If there is not much math, mathjax is quite fast. The speed would be an issue on a page with more than hundred formulas which is not realistic for the home page, so I see no reason for not having a global math parameter.

[gcushen]

Good to hear about your experience with mathjax 😄

I took another look at some major online scientific publishers. For the abstract field, it appears they allow LaTeX math and disallow the author to use custom formatting.

So I have gone ahead and removed markdownify from the abstract field and added a global math parameter in the example config.toml. Thus, LaTeX math can now be easily added to both titles and abstracts, and rendered correctly with the new global math = true option set. See commits 9d44054 and e1faa26.

[ssemigr]

Great, thanks!