# Discourse Math Editor
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [April 26, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363 "2020-04-26T16:32:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@spirobel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spirobel)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/1 "2020-04-26T16:32:49Z")
Discourse Math Editor is a plugin to enter math equations into Discourse in a more user friendly way. This editor helps you to create LaTeX. Please read on wikipedia about it if you dont know what it is: [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX)
For more documentation on all the LateX commands that you can use please have a look here: [mathlive docs](http://mathlive.io/)
And please watch the video:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOxe3-lxXlk)
## Installation
Follow [Install a Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157)
how-to from the official Discourse Meta, using `git clone https://github.com/spirobel/discourse-matheditor.git`
as the plugin command.
You also need to use the official math plugin together with this:
[offical math plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-plugin/65770)
I recommend using KateX instead of MathJax, its way faster (at least for me).
> Thaaaats it
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### Author:  [@ozkn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ozkn)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/2 "2020-04-27T02:08:50Z")
Wonderful news. Thank you.
Can math editor icon change location?
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### Author:  [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/3 "2020-04-27T05:35:54Z")
We can add output to plugin or not.
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### Author:  [@spirobel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spirobel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/4 "2020-04-27T06:39:24Z")
thanks for the suggestion, it makes sense. I will have a look at it!
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### Author:  [@spirobel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spirobel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/5 "2020-04-27T06:42:49Z")
do you mean the graph below the box like in the mathlive docs? I think its a good idea, but probably better handled in a different plugin. What do you think about this plugin:
> [@Discourse Graphviz](https://meta.discourse.org/t/graphviz-plugin/97554):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Graphviz provides the ability to add graphs to posts using the DOT language.open_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features This plugin uses the [Viz.js](https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js) library to render graphs. To embed a graph use [graphviz] [/graphviz] bbcode. Optionally you can define layout engine attributes: [graphviz engine=neato]. If engine is not defined, it defaults to the dot engine…
Does it fit your use case?
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### Author:  [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/6 "2020-04-27T07:00:15Z")
> [@spirobel](#):
>
> do you mean the graph below the box like in the mathlive docs? I think its a good idea
Yes i mean. Graphviz plugin I’m not sure whether it can display mathematical images or not.
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### Author:  [@spirobel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spirobel)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/7 "2020-04-27T07:13:02Z")
I think from using inspect element on [mathlive.io](http://mathlive.io) that he is using [Plotly javascript graphing library in JavaScript](https://plotly.com/javascript/) if there is a need for other plotting libraries maybe we can use the graphiz plugin as a starting point and integrate them in a similar way.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Bobkov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_Bobkov)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/8 "2020-04-30T11:34:45Z")
I’m not a math person and working with languages, I’m interested, is it possible to create a plugin with google virtual keyboard?
> **[Google Input Tools](https://www.google.com/intl/en/inputtools/try/)**
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### Author:  [@Ed\_Bobkov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_Bobkov)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/10 "2020-05-02T08:25:08Z")
by the way, I found some posts here that people living in other countries can’t type in their native language, because they don’t have a local keyboard with PC or laptop. Of course they can use online keyboards, but it’s smth like a ‘wooden wheel’ in a new auto .
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### Author:  [@spirobel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spirobel)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/11 "2020-05-02T08:36:00Z")
This is actually something I am interested in as well. I am learning how to create discourse plugins because I want to create a collaborative mandarin dictionary. Its quite a big project, so I am creating these smaller plugins first that have similar features so I can experiment on how to implement the whole thing. We can not use the google virtual keyboard, because it seems like its not an open source library. But a quick google search shows that there are open source virtual keyboard solutions: for example I just came across this one: [Virtual Keyboard](https://mottie.github.io/Keyboard/)
I think the big downside of these keyboards is that the typing is very slow. So usually if I want to type in a different language I install something like unikey for vietnamese for example or sunpinyin for mandarin. I expect that most of my users will be able to type in their language so I am not planning to add a virtual keyboard. But I also want to have a way to input pinyin and zhuyin with tones. I still havent figured what to do about this. Which languages are you working with?
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### Author:  [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/19 "2022-01-14T07:21:31Z")
This is very beautiful!
Can this be done? Will it cost much hardware resource?
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Wass](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Wass)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/20 "2024-01-25T03:51:05Z")
@spirobel I just installed your plugin and now I’m getting this error. Any chance you will be updating your awesome plugin?
`Error: the 'matheditor-modal' modal needs updating to work with the latest version of Discourse. See https://meta.discourse.org/t/268057.`
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### Author:  [@kuaza](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuaza)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/21 "2024-04-01T05:12:55Z")
This plugin needs to be updated. It causes errors in the editor area.
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/23 "2025-04-04T06:24:59Z")
Hi Spirobal,
your plugin is very useful, particularly for mobile devices.
There has been the many discourse updates since Apr 2024, and i haven’t seen this plugin topic be marked as “broken”, so i assume the above faults weren’t reproducible on later discourse releases?
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-math-editor/149363/24 "2025-06-17T21:27:02Z")
has anyone had any success with this on smartphone recently?