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Equation live preview doesn't work in notebooks
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Description
Bug description
When typing LaTeX inside a markdown cell in a jupyter notebook in VSCode, the assist panel doesn't show a preview for the equation.
This feature is less useful in a notebook, but not without value. Anyway notebooks are not documented as an exception, so perhaps it's a bug.
Steps to reproduce
- Create a jupyter notebook
- Add a quarto header
- Create a markdown cell
- Type some LaTeX
Actual behavior
The assist panel doesn't update to show the current equation as in qmd files.
Expected behavior
Both formats show the same behavior.
Your environment
macOS 26.3.1
VSCode 1.113.0
Quarto 1.130.0
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in a VSCode Jupyter notebook with a Quarto header and a markdown cell containing LaTeX, then compare the assist panel with the same content in a qmd file. Trace the notebook and qmd preview paths; done means the current equation preview updates identically in both formats.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- jupyter, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100