LaTeX in Mathematica Slideshow

[DrewD]

I am trying to put together some short slideshows in Mathematica for educational purposes. I'm using Mathematica in Slideshow mode so that it will be a nice looking presentation that also has embedded graphs etc. I thought this would be easy since Mathematica exports LaTeX and imports full LaTeX files. It doesn't seem to allow me to type LaTeX directly in.

Mathematica does have a function "TraditionalForm[]" but this is terrible. There seem to be little or no formatting options and it chooses odd things like displaying "$x$" in a different font when there is a $\Delta$ before it. It is also significantly harder to input a formula into this function than it is to type LaTeX.

I hope that I am just tired and missing something obvious, but multiple searches have not helped me.

 

[Valkarie]

The best solution is to use MathJax, which is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics. It supports LaTeX and MathML, and it can be used inside Mathematica notebook cells to display LaTeX equations. There are many tutorials available online that explain how to do this. This way, you can type the LaTeX directly into the notebook cell and the equations will be formatted correctly.