LaTeX functionality in card titles?

[Fizzster21]

Hey there!

I was wondering if it was possible to add the LaTeX functionality to card titles? I use LaTeX a lot for my cards and sometimes like to link formulas with specific cards and would be perfect if we could use these formulas in the actual titles of the cards.

Not sure if this is already available but thought I’d flag here just in case!

Best,
Fisayo

[tobias]

Hi @Fizzster21,

Thanks for your feature request. We’ve discussed this quite a lot, and while we’d like to support Markdown or LaTeX within titles, there’s multiple reasons why we don’t. Connor summed it up well recently here for Markdown but the same applies to LaTeX:

@connor

We originally considered supporting markdown in titles, but settled pretty firmly on “no” back then.

The primary issue with supporting Markdown in card titles is a title can realistically only support a subset of what the card content supports, e.g. having block quotes or tables in titles would be a non-starter. This would cause us to have to maintain two version of our markdown parser and additionally it would not be immediately obvious to users which markdown features they can use in the title vs the content. Unfortunately markdown is already a bit of a hurdle for many of our users, so making it more complex / confusing is not something we want (we’re actually trying to go in the opposite direction at the moment).

Rendering HTML in titles also significantly complicates various other parts of the app that rely on titles being plain text in order to be performant / consistent.

Due to this I’m marking this out of scope for now, but if anyone would like specifically LaTex or Code Blocks or general Markdown please like the relevant topics.

[Fizzster21]

Thanks Tobias, yeah I can appreciate that. Makes sense thanks for the response!