LaTeX math support?

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Has there been any discussion of adding support for math symbol display to the abstract field of dataverse metadata?

For example, we have an abstract like this:

... Higher moments of order $n$ ($\ge$3) diverge as $\tau\^{n-2}$. When only reflected or transmitted photons are considered, the second moment diverges as $\tau\^{-1}$, whatever the illumination and viewing conditions. This provides direct access to $\tau$. ...

and it would be great if the math displayed correctly on the dataset's page.

[Philip Durbin]

No, I don't believe this has been discussed. Please feel free to create a GitHub issue.

The solution I'm aware of is MathJax, used on Stack Overflow's math site. It sounds like DataCite supports it, unofficially: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/3328#issuecomment-566173300

I tried your example on the MathJax demo site and it mostly worked. :)

The concern on the Dataverse side, of course, is preventing malicious code from being executed. Right now we only allow certain HTML tags.

I hope this helps,

Phil

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[Nico Poppelier]

If only HTML-tags are allowed, adding support for MathML would be another option. As editor of the MathML v2 Recommendation and former member of the W3C Math WG I'm biased of course. :-)

Regards, Nico

https://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/

Op woensdag 13 juli 2022 om 21:39:52 UTC+2 schreef Philip Durbin:

[arnau merino]

Hello Phil,

I have one question about this topic, how did you manage to integrate MathJax?

I am considering adding it and I was wondering if you had any tip.

Thank you in advance,

Best Regards,

Arnau Merino

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Arnau,

Sorry for the confusion. We don't support MathJax or similar in Dataverse. Are you saying you'd like to try contributing support for MathJax?

Thanks,

Phil

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[Anthony Reyes]

Hi Philip,

Has there been any news or updates related to this topic?

I am in interested in contributing support for latex/mathjax in abstract fields. My organization has some datasets with latex in their abstracts.

Thanks,

Anthony

[Philip Durbin]

Yes, actually! In Portugal last week one of the installations mentioned they implemented MathJax!

However, I can't remember which one! I believe they even showed it on screen, maybe as a video? Does anyone who was there remember?

That's for the old/current/classic JSF frontend.

For the new React frontend, we recently started rendering Markdown in descriptions, for example: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/pull/91

I'm not sure if this helps with MathJax though. I looks like MathJax or similar could be supported through a plugin: https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown/tree/8.0.7#use-remark-and-rehype-plugins-math

Let's see if anyone remembers. We definitely invite contributions. Were you thinking for the current UI or the new React UI?

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[Anthony Reyes]

I was thinking for the current UI. 

If someone already implemented MathJax in the current UI, that's great! Was any issue/PR created in the main repository for that? If not, hopefully someone can point us to the installation who accomplished it.

Its nice to see the new React frontend coming along though!

[Dorothea Iglezakis]

Hi Anthony,

that was us. We wrote a small JavaScript script that applies MathJax to the relevant metadata fields and renders existing LaTeX code. It is not yet visible in our production instance (darus.uni-stuttgart.de), but with the upgrade to 5.13 we want to include it.

If you are interested, we are happy to share.

Best,

Doro

[Dieuwertje Bloemen]

Hi Doro,

I was also quite excited to see this implementation. I did have one question however; how is the description showing up in aggregators such as OpenAire or Google Dataset Search? I assume they don't have MathJax implemented and was wondering if the description is still legible outside of your dataverse.

Kind regards,

Dieuwertje

[Iglezakis, Dorothea]

Hi Dieuwertje,

so far, we didn't do any changes on the export, so aggregators will get the raw LaTeX code in the description. But I'm also not sure, what would be the best solution for the export of LaTeX code.

Best,

Doro

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[Anthony Reyes]

Hi Doro,

Thank you for reaching out, I am interested! If you could share the script I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Anthony

[Iglezakis, Dorothea]

Hi Anthony,

you can find the script in https://github.com/izus-fokus/mathJax4Dataverse. 

Best,

Doro

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[Philip Durbin]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, Doro!

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