{"id":17530,"date":"2017-03-28T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17530"},"modified":"2017-03-30T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:51:51","slug":"pages-6-1-adds-basic-latex-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/pages-6-1-adds-basic-latex-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Pages 6.1 Adds Basic LaTeX Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-ca\/HT207569\">Apple<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnadeau\/status\/846405723105873920\">Jeff Nadeau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13970584\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-ca\/HT207569\"><p>You can use LaTeX commands or MathML elements to include mathematical expressions and equations into your Pages document. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202501\">also<\/a> works with iBooks Author:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202501\"><p>Pages and iBooks Author support all LaTeX commands that can be converted to MathML with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gva.noekeon.org\/blahtexml\/blahtexml-0.9-doc.pdf\">blahtex<\/a>. Additional supported LaTeX extensions are listed below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2017-03-28): See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17138\">Michael E. Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2017-03-29): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicallyefficient.com\/2017\/03\/29\/pages-latex.html\">Eddie Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.practicallyefficient.com\/2017\/03\/29\/pages-latex.html\">\n<p>As an added bonus, even though Keynote does not have the same direct LaTeX support as Pages, I found that you can copy the equation in Pages as an image and simply paste it into Keynote. The image appears to be a vector graphic because it scales perfectly without any resolution loss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2017-03-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/iwork-updates-march-2017\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/iwork-updates-march-2017\/\">\n<p>Meanwhile, the Mac version of Pages still lacks features that were present in &ldquo;old&rdquo; Pages. It may have gained LaTeX support, but it&rsquo;s still missing some contextual menu options that are available in other Mac apps, and I find basic text editing bugs every time I use it. I&rsquo;m not sure how much of this, if any, is tied to components shared between the three platforms each app is available on, but I didn&rsquo;t notice the same kinds of bugs when the Mac and iOS versions were more-or-less discrete apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (via Jeff Nadeau, Hacker News): You can use LaTeX commands or MathML elements to include mathematical expressions and equations into your Pages document. It also works with iBooks Author: Pages and iBooks Author support all LaTeX commands that can be converted to MathML with&nbsp;blahtex. Additional supported LaTeX extensions are listed below. 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