MiniLaTeX Demo App

[James Carlson]

Here is a

    MiniLaTeX Demo App

that you can use to see how MiniLaTeX works.  Many thanks to the

MathJax team for getting me over some rough spots.

MiniLaTeX is a subset of LaTeX that can be rendered in the browser

or in the usual way with tools like pdflatex.  

The MiniLaTeX processor renders MiniLaTeX source text into HTML;

then hands the HTML to MathJax to render mathematical text 

of the form $ ... $ and $$ ... $$.

There are several parts to the MiniLaTeX processor -- a parser, a renderer,

a differ, and an accumulator.  See Towards LaTeX in the Browser for some

technical details on this setup.  The parser, which is written in Elm, is the

key element.  Just over 300 lines long, it is built on the notion of a LaTeX expression

type LatexExpression

    = LXString String

    | Comment String

    | Item Int LatexExpression

    | InlineMath String

    | DisplayMath String

    | Macro String (List LatexExpression)

    | Environment String LatexExpression

    | LatexList (List LatexExpression)

The MiniLaTeX Demo App is suited for small experiments.  For writing documents, 

one can use www.knode.io. 

MiniLaTeX is still under development -- I would very much appreciate any feedback so

as to get it in good shape for a 1.0 release.  That said, it is in good enough shape to handle

one long writing project (work in progress).

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[James Carlson]

 

Am working on better error handling as indicated in the figure.  Added a new type, `LXError String String` to the parser for this.

[James Carlson]

>> Link for updates on MiniLatex project <<

On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12:45:43 AM UTC-5, James Carlson wrote: