[FEATURE] Native LaTeX rendering in VScode (and possibly the CLI)

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Problem Statement

I use VS Code to create .tex documents, compile them, and view the PDFs. I am an academic researcher. Claude Code is a wonderful companion for both just viewing and asking questions about papers I am reading, and for helping me while I am drafting and writing papers.

Sometimes I will be wondering about a mathematical step, or I will want to discuss math with Claude, and then have it do some math in the .tex document. The issue is that discussing math with Claude is difficult, because Claude will naturally show LaTeX in the VS code extension sidebar. Reading raw LaTeX is very painful.

Proposed Solution

It would be great if this LaTeX natively rendered so that it was more readable for humans. I don’t know if this would be possible to also implement in Claude Code CLI.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

High - Significant impact on productivity

Feature Category

Other

Use Case Example

“Hey Claude, see equation (4) on line 320? What would the end result of that derivation be if we instead replaced term A with term B?”

Claude thinks about it, then displays the derivation. Claude can already do this, but Claude displays raw LaTeX which is a pain to read.

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