It seems that the possibility to write Mathematics in element-desktop using TeX notation, has been added although no person picked-up the Google summer code project. Someone did it for free. The feature is experimental and needs to enabled manually by the user, but it works fine. So I thought to write it here for two reasons. First, of course if anyone needs it to know how to enable it. Second I have to find solution for my L5 and maybe someone knows how to do it on L5. Because currently there is no port of element-desktop for atm64 (or I did not find it). Or maybe, since it is done for element it could be now easy to add this to fractal too(?)
The configuration is as follows:
- go to a room
- upper right go to the (i) symbol
- room settings cog wheel
- advanced
- open devtools
- settings explorer
- change feature_latex_maths to:
{
“device”: true,
“room-device”: null,
“room-account”: null,
“account”: null,
“room”: null,
“config”: null,
“default”: false
}
Essentially the only thing you need to change is the line “device”: true,
(from null to true). And then you are ready to write and receive Mathematics.
(Element desktop has one glitch. You can not change keyboard language with Alt+Shift easily, since the language changes but the menu of the program is for some reason enabled, and you have to click in the writing field with the mouse to be able to write again. This is annoying and maybe someone knows what is wrong. By the way this problem does not exist when Element is launched from the web (app.element.io)).