Support for math equations in Confluence and Jira in the built-in text editor

[Scott Boyden]

Requesting built-in support for math equations in Confluence, and ideally Jira descriptions as well.  

We are a chemical process engineering company, one point of resistance to adopting Atlassian tools across the company is the lack of built-in support for math equations.  

The standard office tools provide built-in support, Confluence does not.  Once the equation is built in the office tool, it's possible to add it to Confluence as a screen capture, but that isn't editable or searchable. 

I know that there are 3rd party add-ins with additional costs and restrictions; these would provide less-than-desirable paths forward.

Could we please have a built-in, supported solution?

Thanks.

Scott B.

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Hi @Scott Boyden 

It'd be nice to add this or that functionality - and Atlassian is doing that, sherlocking apps left and right. But Confluence is not positioned as a standard office tool.

For specific features, there are apps, this has always been the model. It's like a smartphone - apps lend it additional functionality.

Having said that... there are free apps that provide LaTeX formula functionality - at no extra cost. And as apps integrate directly into Confluence, they become a part of it. A macro is a macro is a macro.

[Scott Boyden]

Kris:

Lack of native math equation support helps justify our process engineering team continuing to use MS Word with files on a shared network drive as opposed to a searchable knowledge base/repository that can also be used as a source for project and product documentation.

Their position:  Why use two tools when one, in this case MS-Word (with no structure/organization), will do to get the immediate work done?  

The LaTeX macro is an option, but it's also another learning-curve.

We can't make a strong push to move to Confluence with this, and a few other limitations.   

[Varsha Joshi]

Hi @Scott Boyden 

I think you should add your request to Atlassian's Jira - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-3048?filter=98153&jql=project%20in%20(%2218512%22%2C%20%2222610%22%2C%20%2214613%22%2C%20%2218511%22%2C%20%2218514%22%2C%20%2221810%22)%20AND%20text%20~%20%22math%20formula%22

As per the 2014 post it was not prioritized to add math equations.

[Scott Boyden]

I'm not sure.  That request was for JSM support, it's closed, and it was called for Atlassian to integrate a 3rd party tool.  I'm asking for a NATIVE tool (Like what is embedded in the Microsoft Office suite).