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Changes for page Element Messenger

Last modified by Thomas Coelho (local) on 2026/03/13 11:41
From version 18.1
edited by Thomas Coelho (local)
on 2026/03/02 13:16
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To version 18.4
edited by Thomas Coelho (local)
on 2026/03/06 13:42
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83 83  On our managed ITP machines, the desktop application "Element" is installed. This is basically a wrapped version off the web client, which uses the Electron frame work. It has some features the web app does not offer, like full text search trough your chats.
84 84  
85 -= =
85 += Special Features =
86 86  
87 -
87 +== Latex Formula Rendering ==
88 +
89 +It's declared as experimental feature. In the Desktop App you can add a configuration file in JSON format.
90 +
91 +{{code language="bash"}}
92 +cd ~/.config/Element
93 +{{/code}}
94 +
95 +Create a file "config.json" with the following content:
96 +
97 +{{code language="json"}}
98 +{
99 + "features": {
100 + "feature_latex_maths": true
101 + }
102 +}
103 +
104 +{{/code}}
105 +
106 +In the web client this is also enabled.
107 +
108 +You can render Latex with a surrounding $ or $$ for inline are block.