textmacros

The textmacros extension adds the ability to process some text-mode macros within \text{} and other macros that produce text-mode material. See the Differences from Actual TeX section for how text-mode is handled without this extension.

This extension is not loaded automatically, and can’t be loaded via the autoload extension. To load the textmacros extension, add '[tex]/textmacros' to the load array of the loader block of your MathJax configuration, and add 'textmacros' to the packages array of the tex block.

window.MathJax = {
  loader: {load: ['[tex]/textmacros']},
  tex: {packages: {'[+]': ['textmacros']}}
};

Alternatively, use \require{textmacros} in a TeX expression to load it dynamically from within the math on the page, if the require package is loaded.

Available Macros:

The macros available in text mode with this extension are listed below. In addition, any macro that is defined via \def or \newcommand or in the macros section of the tex configuration block will also be processed if they only contain macros from the list below.

Additional Special Characters

~	non-breaking space
`	open quote (use two for double quote)
'	close quote (use two for double quote)

Math Mode Delimiters

$	start/end math mode
\(	start math mode
\)	end math mode

Quoted Special Characters

\$	literal dollar sign
\_	literal underscore
\%	literal percent
\{	literal open brace
\}	literal close brace
\ (backslash-space)	literal space
\&	literal ampersand
\#	literal hash mark
\\	literal backslash

Text Accents

\'	acute accent
\`	grave accent
\^	circumflex accent
\"	umlaut accent
\~	tilde accent
\=	macron accent
\.	over dot accent
\u	breve accent
\v	caron accent

Font Control

\emph	emphasized text
\rm	roman text
\oldstyle	oldstyle numerals
\cal	calligraphic text
\it	italic text
\bf	bold text
\scr	script text
\frak	Fraktur text
\sf	sans-serif text
\tt	typewriter text
\Bbb	blackboard-bold text
\textrm	roman text
\textit	italic text
\textbf	bold text
\textsf	sans-serif text
\texttt	typewriter text

Size Control

\tiny	very tiny size
\Tiny	tiny size
\scriptsize	size of super- and subscripts
\small	small size
\normalsize	standard size
\large	large size
\Large	larger sizse
\LARGE	very large size
\huge	even larger size
\Huge	largest size

Special Characters

\dagger	†
\ddagger	‡
\S	§

Spacing Commands

\,	thin space
\:	medium space
\>	medium space
\;	thick space
\!	negative thin space
\enspace	en-space
\quad	quad space
\qquad	double quad space
\thinspace	thin space
\negthinspace	negative thin space
\hskip	horizontal skip (by following amount)
\hspace	horizontal space (of a given size)
\kern	kern (by a given size)
\rule	line of a given width and height
\Rule	box with given dimensions
\Space	space with given dimensions

Color Commands

\color	set text color
\textcolor	set text color
\colorbox	make colored box
\fcolorbox	make framed colored box

HTML Commands

\href	make hyperlink
\style	specify CSS styles
\class	specify CSS class
\cssId	specify CSS id
\unicode	character from unicode value

Equation Numbers

\ref	cite a labeled equation
\eqref	cite a labeled equation with parentheses

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Additional Packages

You can configure the textmacros extension to use additional packages, just as you can specify additional math TeX packages. Normally, these should be pckages designed for text mode, but it is possible to load some of the regular TeX packages as text macros. For example

MathJax = {
  loader: {load: ['[tex]/textmacros', '[tex]/bbox']},
  tex: {
    packages: {'[+]': {'textmacros'}},
    textmacros: {
      packages: {'[+]': ['bbox']}
    }
  }
}

would make the bbox extension available in text mode, so you could use \bbox inside \text{}, for example. Not all math-mode extensions are approrpriate for textmode, but some can be usefully employed in text mode.

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