Is there an addon for thunderbird to render LaTeX equations on display?

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I mean, if an email contains something like $\mathcal L = -\frac14 F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$ , is there an addon to have this rendered into something nicer to read?

Or one to have equations rendered to png images when sending an email?

As I've mentioned in several other questions, compiling any LaTeX code that someone sends you is potentially a very bad idea. — TH., Jan 05 '11 at 09:11
@TH.: that's true, though one could treat it the same way thunderbird treats remote content - only shown for whitelisted users by default. Also, I only thought of rendering parts of an email containing an $...$ equation — Tobias Kienzler, Jan 05 '11 at 11:06

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '11 at 08:53

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A quick search on addons.mozilla.org revealed two: Equations that does the conversion on some remote server and LaTeX It! which does it at the recipients PC. In both cases TeX code is transmitted as message body.

answered Jan 05 '11 at 08:53

Carsten Thiel

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+1, although LaTeX It! doesn't seem to work (thudnerbird 3.0.4 de). Should there also be some "replace equations" button at message composition? – Tobias Kienzler Jan 05 '11 at 11:21
... ok, I had to manually add the LaTeX it to the composing window – Tobias Kienzler Jan 16 '11 at 09:12
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LaTeX It! is the better one since it uses your local TeX engine. – S. Boonto Jan 07 '11 at 21:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '11 at 03:00

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how about Tex the world ? I am not quite sure it is up to date. And it also be more useful in firefox.

answered Jan 16 '11 at 03:00

pluton

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Looks nice, but does it actually also work with thunderbird? Did you test it? – Tobias Kienzler Jan 16 '11 at 09:13
no, I did not try. – pluton Jan 16 '11 at 14:55

Is there an addon for thunderbird to render LaTeX equations on display?

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