Eval inside $$ blocks

[germanesosa]

Hi!

Is there a way to include {eval} in latex or math blocks?

Thanks!

[agoose77]

Hi @germanesosa,

Right now the answer is no. My feeling is that we probably won't support this; parsing {eval} inside LaTeX would require a custom Math parser, which would be a headache. Instead, it would make sense to generate the LaTeX using {eval} in a language that's easier to write and debug e.g. Python

from IPython.display import Latex, display

first = "x"
second = "10"

body = f"""
The equation is ${first} + {second}$
"""
math = Latex(body)

Then embed it using eval

The equation is {eval}`math`

or as a standalone code cell with referenced output.