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Very cool. The one thing that prevents me from trying this out as a potential note-taking daily driver is the lack of support for LaTeX.

I recently switched from Obsidian to Zettlr due to some rendering and performance issues on Linux, and it's been a great experience. However, I always like to see new entrants in the arena.

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LaTeX support is a reasonable request! It's not on the immediate roadmap, but here's my thinking:

Options considered: - KaTeX/MathJax-style rendering (would need a Rust math renderer or JS bridge) - Typst integration (Rust-native, modern alternative to LaTeX) - External tool pipeline (render via pandoc/LaTeX CLI)

Typst is interesting since it's also Rust-based and simpler than full LaTeX. Would inline math ($x^2$) and display math ($$...$$) cover your use case, or do you need full document features?

Added to the roadmap consideration list. Thanks for the feedback!

I only need inline+display math, I don't need the full document features.

Good to know! Inline + display math is a more tractable scope. Typst or a Rust KaTeX port could handle that without needing full LaTeX. Added to the consideration list with that clarification.

Agreed. Having an open-source alternative to (the otherwise excellent) Typora would be fantastic; as far as I can tell the main feature Ferrite is currently lacking to be used for most (all?) applications where I use Typora is a way to easily write and render maths formula. (As far as I am concerned, support for TeX math would be ideal due to wide support from the existing ecosystem; but Typst would work too.)

Thanks! TeX math support ($...$ and $$...$$) is planned for v0.4.0. We're going pure Rust (no JS runtimes), targeting common LaTeX syntax. See the planning doc on github (docs folder) for details.

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