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I'm a newbie to Canvas. I have found the equation editor, which works fine. But I have pages with many equations. Is there a way to include the LaTeX code in a page, and then have Canvas automatically render the equation? Thanks - this would be a big time saver.
I also had trouble with adding equations to Canvas pages. Even if you use the equations editor, there is no easy way of adding equation numbers or references to equations. To workaround this I made a LaTeX to plain HTML converter. You put in a LaTeX article and it spits out basic HTML that can be read by the HTML editor of a Canvas page. I'll add a picture of how it can look and if you want to check out the converter visit GitHub.
For folks like me who get lost when the first step is "install Python," there's an online .tex-->HTML converter at https://www.vertopal.com/en/convert/tex-to-html-html5 You can then follow the steps to paste the HTML code into Canvas's code editor. Any remaining equations (which start/end with $$) just highlight, then click the equation editor, and that equation will be converted. Here's a quick video...https://www.screencast.com/t/ovR7lKb53zA
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