This is a fork from tarleb's parse-latex filter to make it work with the mathjax3eqno quarto extension.
A filter to use when the input contains raw LaTeX that should be included in other output formats. The filter uses pandoc's LaTeX reader to parse raw snippets.
The intended use for this filter are cases in which a Markdown
document contains LaTeX snippets that are not just formatting
additions, but a part of the content. Any raw LaTeX snippet, such
as \textcolor{red}{lorem ipsum}, will be parsed as LaTeX. The
result is then re-inserted into the document, replacing the
snippet. The above will yield <span style="color: red">lorem ipsum</span> when converting to HTML.
The snippets will be passed through unchanged when converting to LaTeX/PDF.
The filter is particularly useful with tables: it becomes possible to use some of extra power of LaTeX, while still getting sensible output with other formats. E.g.:
```{=latex}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
one & two \\
\hline
three & four \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
```
The PDF output will have horizontal and vertical table lines, something that's otherwise difficult to accomplish with pandoc.¹
The filter uses pandoc's LaTeX parser, so if pandoc cannot parse a LaTeX snippet, then neither can this filter.
¹ The reason for this is that vertical lines in tables are considered as ugly and bad style by most typographers.
This version of the filter is meant to be used with mathjax3eqno in Quarto.
Add this filter to a project
quarto add ute/parse-latex-noeq
and use it by adding parse-latex to the filters entry
in their YAML header.
Since it is meant to work together with mathjax3eqno, also add
quarto add ute/mathjax3eqno
Use the two filters together
---
filters:
- parse-latex-noeq
- mathjax3eqno
---This filter does not process references \ref anymore, since this is taken care of by mathjax, via filter mathjax3eqno. As a consequence, you can no longer refer to tables or headers the LaTeX way, but have to use quartos cross-referencing mechanism, however quarto is great for this purpose and allows preview on mouse-hover :-).
This pandoc Lua filter is published under the MIT license, see
file LICENSE for details.