Introducing LaTeX Tips Series for Writing Math Equations in Confluence

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Hi everyone! 👋

We’re the team behind LaTeX Math for Confluence (Cloud), and we’re excited to kick off a short practical series with LaTeX tips for writing math equations in Confluence.

If you've ever tried adding formulas, you probably know that it’s not always easy. Maybe you pasted screenshots because it was faster than figuring out how to make the equation look right. Or copied formulas from Google Docs and saw how the formatting fell apart. Or spent way too long trying to get even a simple fraction or subscript to display the way it should.

Sound familiar?

That’s why in this series, we’ll share practical examples you can copy and paste directly into your Confluence Cloud pages.

What LaTeX is and how it helps with writing math equations

If you're new to LaTeX, it's a typesetting language designed specifically for writing math. It might look a bit technical at first, but once you know a few patterns, it becomes a powerful and fast way to write even complex formulas and equations.

LaTeX helps you:

• Keep your formulas precise and readable

• Quickly edit and update equations

• Stay consistent across your team’s documentation

In Confluence Cloud, using LaTeX inside your pages is possible with one of the apps from the Atlassian Marketplace. It is much easier than uploading screenshots or manually formatting equations.

What's Coming Next

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing practical LaTeX tips based on real examples and questions we’ve seen. You’ll learn how to write:

• Superscripts, subscripts, fractions, and square roots

• Aligned multi-line equations

• Matrices and arrays

• Annotated formulas, text inside equations, and many more.

We’ll be using syntax supported by the LaTeX Math for Confluence (Cloud) app, but the tips might work with other tools that render LaTeX in Confluence.

In the meantime, what’s the biggest math formatting issue you’ve run into in Confluence? We’d love to hear your experience and might include it in one of our upcoming posts!

[Matt Doar]

I'm looking forward to this series of tips (as someone who wrote a PhD thesis in LaTeX many years ago).

I did a quick search for other apps that help with LaTeX in Confluence
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=latex
and was quite surprised to see many choices, including Mosaic from my employer Adaptavist. I'd be interested to see someone do a comparison of the most frequently used ones