On 15 September 2016 at 19:50, Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 11:36:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >> On 9/14/16 1:50 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: >>> >>> Can we produce formulas, or latex in ddoc? Are there any examples in >>> phobos I can refer to? >> >> >> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/latex.ddoc >> >> That's the macros file for generating the language spec in LaTeX format. > > > I think what the man is asking for is a way to write formulas in DDoc, > regardless of output format. Foremost, the math should display well on > dlang.org. > > If you look at https://dlang.org/phobos/std_mathspecial.html#.gamma, there > is some math there. But then if you look at the DDoc source, > https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/mathspecial.d, it's pretty > terrible how to get it done, and it is very limited (how would you get > "sqrt(x+y)" to display well, or probably what Manu wants, how to get matrix > math to display well?). > > A great addition to DDoc would be to allow LaTeX bits, like doxygen does, > and render it nicely for both web and PDF output. You just mark a piece of > text as <LatexStartsHere>....<LatexOut>.
Right, thank you.