Discussion: Inline nodes with content

[denis]

@marijn

Require that inline nodes with content are rendered with a custom node view, as a way to put the responsibility of hacking something together that happens to work for a given use case toward the client code. So if you want a nested structured node in your inline content, sure, but you have to kludge together the editing interface

I’m curious about the current feasibility of this, since this is exactly what I am trying to do!

My use case is wysiwig math editing. I’m trying to hook up http://mathquill.com/ as a custom node view, on top of an inline node with content of a single text node. The content node in this case contains the latex representation of the math.

I’ve run into a number of issues while doing this, and I’m wondering if I should report the issues I am seeing and try to get it working, or whether it’s not reasonable to attempt at this time. In that case, I’ll probably convert it into a leaf node and use some other mechanism (maybe attrs?), rather than a child text node to store the latex.