Bug 330003

Summary:	Wish: Add LaTeX support (write formulas, compile, send as png or similar)
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Daniel <daniel-edler>
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	blueCharmQuark, cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.11.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Daniel 2014-01-15 17:01:33 UTC

For short: something like that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/latex-it/?src=search

In this thunderbird plugin the formulas can be inserted via $ math... $ (or with double $). The mail is sent in a text version (raw tex code is seen) and a html version with png pictures included instead. A button let it compile. Modifications in the preambel can be made.
It seems to me that something like that is reletively simple to implement. Is that true? Can I do it on my own without experience and therefor contribute to kmail/kde? (Actually I use c++ and Qt for my own small applications.)
Bring the math to kmail ;-) Very usefull for students of mathematic/physics/... .

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-01-15 17:34:55 UTC

Since this is an add-on for thunderbird, not a functionality provided by default, this wish is about add-on support for KMail2?

Comment 2 Daniel 2014-01-15 18:51:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Since this is an add-on for thunderbird, not a functionality provided by
> default, this wish is about add-on support for KMail2?

Partly, yes. But mostly it's just a wish to add the functionality which might be (from my point of view) very usefull. I understand that lots of people have different meanings about it and see it as a functionality not needed by a email client (by default). I think such circumstance (I like it, but most others don't/don't want it as a core component) in general results in a add-on system.
So for me as a normal user I don't care whether it's a add-on or a core component and just a whish to have it.

Comment 3 blueCharmQuark 2015-07-21 21:47:42 UTC

I would appreciate that very much, too! Whether as addon or core feature does not matter :-)