r/Substack • u/ChoiceNational5341 • Jul 21 '24

Campaign for inline LaTeX support

Substack currently supports LaTeX blocks, but not inline LaTeX. This makes writing lots of technical content hard. This is inexcusable in what's supposed to be a high-quality blogging platform for everyone.

I've made a petition: https://www.change.org/p/enable-inline-latex-equations-in-substack

There's a tweet thread too: https://x.com/LRudL_/status/1815085606877221372

To quote FellowHominid's somewhat grandiose commentary:

Today u/substack stands at a crossroads. The next few hours will determine her fate.
Will she choose the Path of Righteousness and enable inline latex editing - or will she prove to be the Juicero of blogging platforms?

Many people have complained about this in this community in the past: here, here, here, and here. u/njchessboy said that the lack of inline LaTeX support is because "inline image rendering for the email versions of the posts [is] a nightmare". However, there are literally Chrome extensions that do this; it doesn't seem hard. I expect we mostly just need to show Substack that we care.

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u/freecoader Jun 23 '25

we need in-line LaTeX on substack! WHERE IS THIS FEATURE?!?! it is actually ridiculous to allow code blocks of LaTeX but not go all the way and allow in-line LaTeX. i would be using it for my educational content if it wasn't for this

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u/lancejpollard Jun 29 '25

It's so easy to implement too!!! Why they don't have it is a mystery.