add latex support
For any deployment in a math-using organization or a research group, latex support is a killer feature. To the best of my knowledge, no native support exists in the competitor tools, and Slack has a rather cumbersome "translator bot" https://github.com/colbygk/mathslax. On the other hand, combining mathjax or katex with marked seems relatively common (e.g. https://github.com/ForbesLindesay/supermarked).
Anton Akhmerov
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Latex support now available on master, thanks to https://github.com/florianorben
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Anton Akhmerov
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Update: gitter now has katex. Probably katex was chosen instead of mathjax because of performance.
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Mikhail Mitkevich commented
I successfully use pandoc through markmon to write latex style math markdown texts. Both markmon and pandoc are open source on github
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Anton Akhmerov
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Not sure how important it is otherwise, but supermarked also supports syntax highlighting out of the box, which is on the mattermost roadmap already.