Great to finally have some way to enter and edit mathematical expressions directly in InDesign!

However, it would be nice to have a way to specify a different math font (such as STIX Two) for rendering, because consistency is often necessary for high-quality typographic work.

When can we expect LCM in adobe indesign

Please consider adding command lines with the ability to input data in more user-friendly languages. For example:

EQN (Ventura Publisher), LaTeX, Mathematica, AsciiMath

MathML is readable for browsers and mathematical tools, but writing it manually is less user-friendly than EQN, LaTeX or AsciiMath.

Alternatively, add an AI tool to convert from these languages (LaTeX/AsciiMath/EQN) to MathML

A fantastic addition, thank you. Is this the right place to suggest things, or is there already a list of proposed improvements?

I work doing kid's books and in order to use MathML, I'd need to change the typeface to something sans serif (preferably any typeface), to make it accessible to dyslexic readers. Para/Character Styles would be needed to maintain consistency throughout a book, or even a separate MathML Styles panel?

What font is Indesign using to render the MathML formulas please?

I'd like to add a request to include the ability to insert spaces of various widths, e.g., a thin space, en space, em space. Currently the spacebar inserts a wide space with no way to adjust it. It will help tremendously to improve the readibility of equations and avoid ambiguities.

I'm already whole my works is typing and designing mathematical and scientific material on InDesign, so it's will be very helpful and time saving to have easy and fast way to including mathematical equations in InDesign, we will appreciate it and it will be super

It seems there is a math expression in the block of color used as a background and will disappear on output. SO HOW DO WE STOP THIS PAIN!??

Potrzebna jest możliwość ustawienia kroju czcionki (teraz to jest Cambria), a potrzebuję np. Tex Gyre Math, dobrze by było, gdyby moduł interpretował zapis TeX/LaTeX.

I find it very commendable that Adobe is implementing MathML into the program. It is a step in the right direction, even though the tool will not yet meet the requirements for scientific typesetting at the time of release. I see the following points as necessary to eliminate the need for third-party programs in the long term:

1. Editability of formulas with respect to text, color, spacing/kerning, line representation and line thickness, as well as glyph selection.
2. Introduction of (object) styles for formulas that store these settings, enabling more efficient workflows for extensive works.
3. Support for CMYK and spot colors for print output.
4. Editability of the formula in plain text for more user-friendly handling.
5. Proper tagging and passing of MathML code as alternative text for output in ePub and PDF/UA.

Yeah, I know.
But poorly at this time.
Good to listen, that you are about to continue implementation.
I wrote it as an advice - I am for example missing setting "100% of point size".
Thank you :)

MathML support proposed by Adobe is far from being the best solution!

I believe MathTools will continue to be better...

MathML functionality comes with a steep learning curve.

Unicode's Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics offers a much simpler and more intuitive alternative.

I recommend checking out the following document for more details:
https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf

I'm happy to see that InDesign 20.0 now supports MathML, even if some functionnalities are missing.

The one I absolutely need is having access to the base line of the equation so that aligning it with the surrounding text becomes easy by script. That's what I do with equations from MathType (reading the line %%Baseline: .... in the EPS file).

We need this especially for accessible PDF exported from InDesign!!

A publishing tool without Math support is not convincing. Please consider providing Math (MathML) support.

@All: This is to update you that Adobe has integrated MathML support in the recent prerelease version and expecting to make it LIVE the initial version during MAX release, most probably by Oct'24 and confirmed that further upgrades will be made and do the DOT releases in CC 2025

Thank you so much all, who and all voted for this idea and shown that it's very much needed!

I do the layout of a lot of Theses so this would be extremely useful!

Bringing this into 2024: Adobe needs to see the math market + accessibility success this would have. To be able to host and easily update complex equations would open the door to a whole new user base of math documentation and textbooks. MathML (or even LaTex) plugin would be extremely beneficial in my workflow.

MathML Support would be very helpful