Known limitations

In this post, we list out mathematical expressions that we have encountered that Mathlify cannot handle. Of those, some will be planned features to come in a future update, while others are not on the current road map

Planned features

• The Sqrt class as a Fn
• The Exponent class
• Decimals as Float within the Numeral class

Not on roadmap

• Division signs (we plan to only handle fractions and quotients)
• General radicals (we plan to only implement Sqrts)
• Mixed product signs. We currently default to typesetting products as ab, but this can be modified to a ${sign} b where sign can be customized (we forsee $\cdot$ and $\times$ as the common use-cases). Mixing two or more signs are not planned.
• Using a custom multiplication sign means differences will no longer be rendered correctly: hence $a-b$ will be rendered as $a-1\times b$.
• For multiplication of fractions, a typical approach is to cancel common factors before multiplying. We plan to only multiply all numerators and denominators first before applying cancellation

Undecided

• Prime factorization

Workarounds

• $\frac{-2}{3}$ is currently typeset as $-\frac{2}{3}$. We will use the Quotient class to typeset the former.