Math markdown support

[olivierbonte]

Prework

• Read and abide by the multimark code of conduct and contributing guidelines.
• Search for duplicates among the existing issues (both open and closed).

Proposal

After seeing the new release of great_tables, I wanted to try making a table which has math notation in one of the columns. This does not work however, as, if I understand correctly, the markdown to latex or html conversion goes via this package, which does not seem to support mathematics.

MWE:

from multimark import markdown_to_html, markdown_to_latex

test_markdown_math = r"$\frac{a}{b}$"

test_latex = markdown_to_latex(test_markdown_math)
test_html = markdown_to_html(test_markdown_math)

gives '\\$\\textbackslash{}frac\\{a\\}\\{b\\}\\$\n' and '<p>$\\frac{a}{b}$</p>\n' for test_latex and test_html respectively.

My request is therefore if it would be possible to add such a conversion to this package? For me, it would greatly improve the usability of great_tables for making scientific content in Quarto. Don't know how big of a task this is, but happy to hear your thoughts!

Thanks in advance,
Olivier

[olivierbonte]

This functionality seems to be present for R GT (https://gt.rstudio.com/reference/fmt_markdown.html#examples), don't know if this can serve as inspiration.

If this is issue is better placed in the great_tables repo, please let me know, then I open an issue there.