[IPython-dev] Latex highlighting for markdown cells?

[Zoltán Vörös]

Thanks! I will look into this.

Cheers,
Zoltán
On 08/31/2014 08:14 PM, Matthias Bussonnier wrote:
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> Le 29 août 2014 à 18:38, Zoltán Vörös <zvoros at gmail.com 
> <mailto:zvoros at gmail.com>> a écrit :
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>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> I have recently been wondering myself about this. What I wanted to do is
>> insert the closing \end{environment} tags in the markdown cell, and
>> insert e.g., \frac{}{} and move the cursor back to the first curly
>> bracket, if the user types \fra, but syntax highlighting would also be
>> useful. Could you point me to some sort of documentation as to how one
>> starts out writing a plugin for this? I would be willing to work on this.
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> Sorry for the short mail :
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> http://codemirror.net/doc/manual.html#modeapi
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> Have also a look at this part of code mirror doc :
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> Sometimes, it is useful for modes to nest—to have one mode delegate 
> work to another mode. An example of this kind of mode is 
> the mixed-mode HTML mode. To implement such nesting, it is usually 
> necessary to create mode objects and copy states yourself. To create a 
> mode object, there are CodeMirror.getMode(options, parserConfig), 
> where the first argument is a configuration object as passed to the 
> mode constructor function, and the second argument is a mode 
> specification as in the mode option. To copy a state object, 
> call CodeMirror.copyState(mode, state), where mode is the mode that 
> created the given state.
>
> —
>