LaTeX syntax highlighting

dbitouze

Hi,

for a forum dedicated to LaTeX, we would like code blocks to be LaTeX syntax highlighted, just as the JSON code block here is JSON syntax highlighted. Note that this is an independent feature from what provides e.g. MathRen.

How could we achieve this?

Thanks.

GreXXL

dbitouze there was an extension (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/16176-latex-by-reflar) - but it's currently unmaintained and not working. You might try to launch aProposals to revive this extension back to life. If not enough people see this as a priority you could either hire someone to update it throughServices or try to get some people to launch aBounty

dbitouze

GreXXL Thanks but, AFAICS, LaTeX by ReFlar provides the same features as MathRen: it renders maths entered as LaTeX code, but doesn't provide any syntax highlighting for LaTeX code (e.g. the code displayed in the “Tip” section of https://discuss.flarum.org/d/16176-latex-by-reflar, that explains how to show the LaTeX code has syntax highlighting but not LaTeX one).

dbitouze

Finally, it looks like LaTeX syntax highlighting is (almost) working. Indeed, it is enough to do as usually on other sites: enclosing the code with a pair of triple backticks, the first one being followed by tex or latex, just as follows:

```latex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$x=0$
\end{document}
```

which gives:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$x=0$
\end{document}

But:

that's not very stable: on our sandbox Flatrum forum, we often need to reload the page in order to see the syntax highlighting,
when visible, the syntax highlighting is pretty minimalist.

Do you see we could improve the current siutation?