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


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 appropriate for textmode, but some can be usefully employed in text mode.