LaTeX display in mobile app

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[Alya Abbott]

Notification Bot said:

• Zulip’s next-gen mobile app is now in public beta. If offers a sleek new design and a faster, smoother experience. Check out the announcement post for details and instructions on how to try the beta!

Hi folks! As the mobile beta app announcement blog post notes, LaTeX display is not yet fully implemented in the new mobile app. This is definitely something we plan to fix, but it's a significant amount of work. So a question for this community: how disappointed would you be if the new app was rolled out to all users before full support for LaTeX is added.

Web:

Screenshot 2024-12-18 at 15.04.35.png

Mobile (current implementation):

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[Jireh Loreaux]

personally, this would only be a minor concern for me, so I wouldn't mind if it was rolled out without full LaTeX support.

[Kevin Buzzard]

That's quite a carefully chosen example because the latex didn't involve any fancy characters. What does $\int_0^\infty\int_{\R}fdx$ look like?

[Kevin Buzzard]

(switching to the beta app) aha, it's just the raw text which I typed. I guess people use code a lot more than latex on this site...

[Floris van Doorn]

I basically stopped using the mobile app because it was unusably slow for me, so I guess I should check out the beta app.

[Kevin Buzzard]

I mean, I'm old enough to remember when people wrote latex in sci.math.research in their posts and it was just displayed like that anyway.

[Alya Abbott]

The example wasn't actually chosen carefully -- I just scrolled around until I found one. :)

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[Shreyas Srinivas]

Alya Abbott said:

Notification Bot said:

• Zulip’s next-gen mobile app is now in public beta. If offers a sleek new design and a faster, smoother experience. Check out the announcement post for details and instructions on how to try the beta!

Hi folks! As the mobile beta app announcement blog post notes, LaTeX display is not yet fully implemented in the new mobile app. This is definitely something we plan to fix, but it's a significant amount of work. So a question for this community: how disappointed would you be if the new app was rolled out to all users before full support for LaTeX is added.

Web:

Screenshot 2024-12-18 at 15.04.35.png

Mobile (current implementation):

image.png

Heavily disappointed. I grew up with my hands glued to a smartphone. More seriously, I tend to use zulip on my phone a lot and anything that makes the mobile experience painful is a big negative.

[Chris Bobbe]

Thanks everyone for the TeX feedback! @Shreyas Srinivas I've noted your special emphasis on this feature on our issue for it and in the Zulip development community, here: https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/48-mobile/topic/TeX.20formatting.20.23F46/near/2018462