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Pages Latex: How do I get the equivalent of what "\mathcal P" should be?

Various online forums say that Latex's "\mathcal P" should like something like this:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/457228

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/232928 (first one in image)


But if you try it in Pages, it appears as this monstrosity:


How do I get Pages to display a regular power set symbol, like how everyone says Latex should be displaying it?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 6, 2019 11:23 PM

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Posted on Apr 8, 2019 9:35 AM

Pages is not using a [La]Tex renderer. It is using a compiled conversion utility called blahtex to convert a limited vocabulary of [La]Tex commands to MathML, and then embed that into the Pages document. So, no — Pages has no capability to render LaTeX as you would using a full installation of MacTeX (TexLive).


About LaTeX and MathML support in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and iBooks Author. There is a link to the blahtex PDF manual in that content.

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Apr 8, 2019 9:35 AM in response to -numbermaniac

Pages is not using a [La]Tex renderer. It is using a compiled conversion utility called blahtex to convert a limited vocabulary of [La]Tex commands to MathML, and then embed that into the Pages document. So, no — Pages has no capability to render LaTeX as you would using a full installation of MacTeX (TexLive).


About LaTeX and MathML support in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and iBooks Author. There is a link to the blahtex PDF manual in that content.

Pages Latex: How do I get the equivalent of what "\mathcal P" should be?

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