sphinx-math-dollar is a Sphinx extension to let you write LaTeX math in RST using $$.
To enable install it
pip install sphinx-math-dollar
or
conda install -c conda-forge sphinx-math-dollar
Then in your conf.py
, add 'sphinx_math_dollar'
to your extensions list:
extensions = ['sphinx_math_dollar', 'sphinx.ext.mathjax']
mathjax_config = {
'tex2jax': {
'inlineMath': [ ["\\(","\\)"] ],
'displayMath': [["\\[","\\]"] ],
},
}
mathjax3_config = {
"tex": {
"inlineMath": [['\\(', '\\)']],
"displayMath": [["\\[", "\\]"]],
}
}
The mathjax_config
is needed to prevent MathJax from parsing dollar signs
which are ignored by the extension because they should not be parsed as math.
You will now be able to use dollar signs for math, like $\int\sin(x)\,dx$
,
which will produce $$\int\sin(x)\,dx$$
, which produces :math:
and .. math::
directives will also continue to work.
The extension will also work with docstrings when combined with the sphinx.ext.autodoc extension.
sphinx-math-dollar uses a blacklist to determine which docutils nodes should not be parsed. The default blacklist is
(FixedTextElement, literal, math)
FixedTextElement
covers the Simple Body Elements nodes.
Any docutils node that is contained in a blacklisted node or a subclass of a
blacklisted node will not have $math$
parsed as LaTeX.
You can modify this by setting math_dollar_node_blacklist
in conf.py
.
For example, to also prevent $math$
from rendering in headers nodes, add
from sphinx_math_dollar import NODE_BLACKLIST
from docutils.nodes import header
math_dollar_node_blacklist = NODE_BLACKLIST + (header,)
Note that configuring this variable replaces the default, so it is recommended
to always include the above default values (NODE_BLACKLIST
) in addition to
additional nodes.
To debug which nodes are skipped, set the environment variable
MATH_DOLLAR_DEBUG=1
or set math_dollar_debug = True
in conf.py
.
If you feel a node should always be part of the default blacklist, please make a pull request.
See the issue tracker for a full list of known issues.
-
Absolute values can produce errors like
Inline substitution_reference start-string without end-string.
. See issue #16.This is because Sphinx parses the vertical bars
|x|
as inline substitutions. To work around this, add spaces around the absolute value bars, like1 + | x | + y
. If an absolute value bar is at the beginning or end of the math expression, use curly braces (to avoid false positives, sphinx-math-dollar will not parse dollar signs as math if there is a space after the first$
or before the last$
). For example, replace$|y| \geq |x^e|$
with${ | y | \geq | x^e | }$
, which produces.
sphinx-math-dollar is designed to work with RST, which does not natively support dollar signs for LaTeX math. If you prefer Markdown, we recommend using [MyST](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), which natively supports dollar math (this extension is not required).
MIT.