diff --git a/src/services/import/markdown.js b/src/services/import/markdown.js
index e350cd065..f9cac8eab 100644
--- a/src/services/import/markdown.js
+++ b/src/services/import/markdown.js
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 "use strict";
 
 const marked = require("marked");
+const texPlugin = require("./tex").texPlugin;
 const htmlSanitizer = require("../html_sanitizer");
 const importUtils = require("./utils");
 
 function renderToHtml(content, title) {
+    marked.use(texPlugin());
     const html = marked.parse(content, {
         mangle: false,
         headerIds: false
diff --git a/src/services/import/tex.js b/src/services/import/tex.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0e1bc7e7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/services/import/tex.js
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+const inlineRule = /^(\${1,2})(?!\$)((?:\\.|[^\\\n])*?(?:\\.|[^\\\n$]))\1(?=[\s?!.,:？！。，：]|$)/;
+const alternativeInlineRule = /^\\\((?!\$)((?:\\.|[^\\\n])*?(?:\\.|[^\\\n$]))\\\)(?=[\s?!.,:？！。，：]|$)/;
+const blockRule = /^(\${1,2})[\s\n]((?:\\[^]|[^\\])+?)[\s\n]\1(?:\n|$)/;
+const alternativeBlockRule = /^\\\[(\s*)((?:\\[^]|[^\\])+?)(\s*)\\](?:\n|$)/;
+
+function texPlugin(options = {}) {
+    return {
+        extensions: [
+            inlineKatex(options, createRenderer(options, false)),
+            altInlineKatex(options, createRenderer(options, false)),
+            blockKatex(options, createRenderer(options, true)),
+            altBlockKatex(options, createRenderer(options, true))
+        ]
+    };
+}
+
+function createRenderer(options, newlineAfter) {
+    return (token) => {
+        let result = token.text;
+        if (token.displayMode) {
+            // full block mode
+            result = `<span class="math-tex">\\[ ${result} \\]</span>`;
+        } else {
+            // inline block mode
+            result = `<span class="math-tex">\\( ${result} \\)</span>`;
+        }
+
+        if (newlineAfter) {
+            result += '\n';
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    };
+}
+
+function inlineKatex(options, renderer) {
+    return {
+        name: 'inlineKatex',
+        level: 'inline',
+        start(src) {
+            let index;
+            let indexSrc = src;
+
+            while (indexSrc) {
+                index = indexSrc.indexOf('$');
+                if (index === -1) {
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                if (index === 0 || indexSrc.charAt(index - 1) === ' ') {
+                    const possibleKatex = indexSrc.substring(index);
+
+                    if (possibleKatex.match(inlineRule)) {
+                        return index;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                indexSrc = indexSrc.substring(index + 1).replace(/^\$+/, '');
+            }
+        },
+        tokenizer(src) {
+            const match = src.match(inlineRule);
+            if (match) {
+                return {
+                    type: 'inlineKatex',
+                    raw: match[0],
+                    text: match[2].trim(),
+                    displayMode: match[1].length === 2
+                };
+            }
+        },
+        renderer
+    };
+}
+
+function altInlineKatex(options, renderer) {
+    return {
+        name: 'altInlineKatex',
+        level: 'inline',
+        start(src) {
+            let index;
+            let indexSrc = src;
+
+            while (indexSrc) {
+                index = indexSrc.indexOf('\\(');
+                if (index === -1) {
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                if (index === 0 || indexSrc.charAt(index - 1) === ' ') {
+                    const possibleKatex = indexSrc.substring(index + 1);
+
+                    if (possibleKatex.match(alternativeInlineRule)) {
+                        return index;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                indexSrc = indexSrc.substring(index + 2).replace(/^\\[()]/, '');
+            }
+        },
+        tokenizer(src) {
+            const match = src.match(alternativeInlineRule);
+            if (match) {
+                return {
+                    type: 'inlineKatex',
+                    raw: match[0],
+                    text: match[1].trim(),
+                    displayMode: false
+                };
+            }
+        },
+        renderer
+    };
+}
+
+function blockKatex(options, renderer) {
+    return {
+        name: 'blockKatex',
+        level: 'block',
+        tokenizer(src) {
+            const match = src.match(blockRule);
+            if (match) {
+                return {
+                    type: 'blockKatex',
+                    raw: match[0],
+                    text: match[2].trim(),
+                    displayMode: match[1].length === 2
+                };
+            }
+        },
+        renderer
+    };
+}
+
+function altBlockKatex(options, renderer) {
+    return {
+        name: 'altBlockKatex',
+        level: 'block',
+        tokenizer(src) {
+            const match = src.match(alternativeBlockRule);
+            if (match) {
+                return {
+                    type: 'blockKatex',
+                    raw: match[0],
+                    text: match[2].trim(),
+                    displayMode: true
+                };
+            }
+        },
+        renderer
+    };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    texPlugin
+};