AsciiMath

AsciiMath is a plain-text math notation (e.g. sin(x)/2). It's worth knowing where it fits with compute-engine, because the support is one-directional.

Output, not input (yet)

compute-engine emits AsciiMath — it's what String(expr) / expr.toString() returns, and it surfaces as the AsciiMathForm output form:

But compute-engine does not parse AsciiMath as input. ce.parse reads LaTeX; to build an expression without LaTeX, hand it MathJSON directly.

Footgun

• Don't paste AsciiMath into a LaTeX field. Simple cases (1/2, x^2) may happen to parse because the syntaxes overlap, but anything with AsciiMath-only spelling (sqrt x, sin x without a command) will misparse. Use LaTeX (\sqrt{x}, \sin x) or MathJSON.