Feature Request: Enable Symbol Palette

[simon4477]

It would be very nice to enable the Symbol Palette.

[svdvonde]

This is an interesting one that I have briefly looked into. Overleaf Ruhr claims to support it but I cannot confirm it because their deployments are behind a university login. One could try to deploy their instance from the code ... but I don't have time for it.

Instead I did a little dig in the code to see what they added to support the symbol palette. I found this in their commit history:

Commit 3b4468b3

• In server-ce/config/settings.js they added symbolPalette: true.
• In services/web/app/src/Features/Project/ProjectEditorHandler.js they added symbolPalette: true.

There were no other obvious changes related to the symbol palette that I could find, and which deviate from standard Overleaf, but admittedly I searched only using Gitlab's search feature and it's not great. I briefly tried to apply the 2 changes to a local (dev) instance of Overleaf, but it did not seem to give me a symbol palette. Further investigation is required..

[svdvonde]

I contacted the author of Overleaf Ruhr and they said:

I unfortunately don't remember how I did this. Overleaf Ruhr will soon be superseded by a new, well-managed and maintained project called HajTeX. We want to have a first release in the coming weeks/months.

Someone will have to dig into the code of the current Overleaf to find out if it can be enabled or ported from an old version of Overleaf.

[yu-i-i]

The Symbol Palette was working with some minor tweaks in older versions before Overleaf switched from Angular to React back in May. I don’t think it’s a big deal to make it work again, but if I find time for Overleaf in the near future, I’d rather focus on template support: I remember symbols by heart :)

[yu-i-i]

Done.