Ask HN: What prompt do you use to get Claude to consistently render LaTeX?

When you say consistently render what do you mean? Like without any sort of formatting issue? If thats the case I would lower your expectations a bit almost always as with any bit of copy editing regardless of using ai or not theres going to be issues to review. I have a claude skill using tectonic I believe and it works pretty well, and then I wrote hooks to make sure if certain things are going to be written it does it in a certain way.

LLMs only produce markdown [1], usually Math is wrapped with KaTeX [2]. The rendering happens in the Web UI. If some math failed to render, you can copy the code and paste to latex-sandbox [3] and fix yourself.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...

[2] https://katex.org

[3] https://latex-sandbox.vercel.app

It seems that GitHub gist can renders some of \LaTeX, but not perfect.

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/bcffb186a753c5b75522fc8...

Some things are just too hard for them to do reliably