Support for LaTeX math environments like in Jupyter notebooks?

I was trying to use MyST-Parser with nbsphinx in https://github.com/spatialaudio/nbsphinx/pull/560, but it doesn’t seem to support math environments like

\begin{equation*}
a
\end{equation*}

Describe the solution you’d like

It would be great if that worked just like in Jupyter notebooks.

Is there an extension I can enable to get this?

[mgeier]

I just had an epiphany: nbsphinx already has Markdown support via Jupytext! I should have thought about this earlier, it’s actually quite obvious.

Everything already works as expected, I just had to document it: https://github.com/spatialaudio/nbsphinx/pull/561

So I won’t have to create my own MyST-based Python package after all!

I will not need anything that we just discussed in this issue, but it might still be interesting for other people who might want to use MyST-Parser with Jupyter-like Markdown extensions.

But I’m fine with closing this, I won’t be needing it anymore.

Thanks for your help, though!

[chrisjsewell]

And with “easy” I mean: one Python package, one entry in extensions in conf.py, nothing else.

So basically myst-parser with hard-coded configuration 🤷