Best way to handle math ($ or $$) in markup

What is the best way to handle embedded LaTex math code, such as can be displayed by GitHub.

Usually Mistune just passes the $ and $$ through as text, but sometimes it does not. Particularly, an expression such as:

$ \tilde{C}_t = \tanh(W_C \cdot [\hat{y}_{t-1},x_t]+b_C) $

Comes in from Mistune as:

Text: $ \tilde{C}
Emphasis: t = \tanh(W_C \cdot [\hat{y}
Text: {t-1},x_t]+b_C) $

Which makes sense, since Mistune is unaware of the $ escaped text, but it corrupts the math code, since the _'s do not indicate emphasis.

Also, are their any plans of supporting math encoding in the future?

[lepture]

@jeffheaton check v3 branch, mistune v3 has built-in math plugin.

[lepture]

@jeffheaton I’ve just released v3.0.0rc1, it is quite stable now. I’m using v3 in production in Typlog.

The documentation is here: https://mistune.lepture.com/en/latest/plugins.html