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Wow! That is a massive comment!
My fault.
I didn't realize that for mathjax rendering, there is a difference between delimiting with $$ and with $ the latter does inline.
My initial edits were with $$, which is what caused the ...
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The MathJax help link should point to a more specific guide
Ok, here's how this works:
https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/texman/ is the default guide for all sites that have MathJax enabled. It's pretty generic, and that's a good thing.
Any site with ...
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MathJax CDN (cdn.mathjax.org) will be shutting down
We have updated all sites in our network to use the CloudFlare CDN for MathJax at: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.0/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML-full
If you are using any type ...
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Is it OK to publish or reverse engineer the PageDown + MathJax integration code?
We have published a GIST for the Pagedown + MathJax integration under the MIT license.
https://gist.github.com/gdalgas/a652bce3a173ddc59f66
Feel free to do with it what you will!
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I think there is a MathJax bug for 'mathcal' typesetting on some platforms
The user postylem's comment completely fixed this problem for me.
This is a problem caused by MathJax not accessing/not having access to the required glyph in the right font. This is a bug I think (...
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Globally Enable MathJax
As mentioned in the answer to Which Stack Exchange sites use MathJax, one of the main driving reasons this isn't enabled on all sites and is instead enabled only on sites that seriously need it is due ...
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Exclude TeX.SE question titles from MathJax parsing in Hot Network Questions
Hey so I was looking into this today, and it looks like this was fixed nearly two years ago and we just never said anything over here.
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MathJax preview bug
Based on some investigation, I've managed to come up with a somewhat reliable way to reproduce this bug:
Find a MathJax-heavy post and edit it. Here's one of mine for your convenience.
Make sure ...
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How about adding MathJax to Hot Questions on stackexchange.com?
This isn't really an issue anymore. The current list doesn't display the beginning of the question body (compare the screenshot below with the one in the question) and questions with MathJax in their ...
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Chemistry equation \ce modifier works in a non chem SE site's posts, but not in search results. Should we consider it "working" and start using it?
I'm not the foremost expert on this, but my understanding of MathJax is as such:
It's entirely not loaded on some sites. This includes Meta Stack Exchange, which is why 'normal' maths such as $1 + 1 =...
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MathJax CDN (cdn.mathjax.org) will be shutting down
Thanks for the heads-up, robjohn! I've just updated ChatJax++ to also use the new CDN.
In fact, ChatJax++ now automatically loads the MathJax URL and settings from the SE site that the chat room ...
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MathJax website is Shutting Down? From where we now getting support?
Peter from MathJax here.
MathJax is not shutting down.
Only one particular service that we provided at cdn.mathjax.org has been retired (in fact it is now redirecting to a similar service).
There ...
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Add a horizontal scrollbar to MathJax formula blocks
A fix for this is now live. Mathjax tables should now get a horizontal scrollbar when they overflow their assigned width.
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Can we get a preview for titles when writing questions?
I'm not against this feature, but if this is implemented, please hide the preview by default. Titles don't support regular Markdown formatting, and I'm not even sure they were intended to support ...
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How to fix the visualization of latex equations in dark mode (SO)?
These are not LaTex equations, if you look closely at the Markdown of the post you see the following for the first equation:
I understand the first formula:
![Σ(j=1 to n) j=n(n+1)/2][2]
This ...
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What does `$` mean in Markdown (on Economics Stack Exchange)?
The $ used to delineate MathJax, a LaTeX renderer used to present mathematical equations. Not every site has it enabled but Economics does.
For more information check out the Economics version of ...
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Wow! That is a massive comment!
It would actually be easy to completely disable display math in comments (forcing it to render inline instead) with a simple MathJax hook, like this:
MathJax.Hub.Register.MessageHook( "Begin Process",...
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Why am I seeing a comment in red color, blocking access to the flag button?
It's actually a MathJax formula, not a Unicode issue. The source of the MathJax formula gives us:
\def\x#1{\smash{\rlap{\hskip{-10em}\style{transform-origin: center middle; display: inline-block; ...
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Is there an easy way of finding out what MathJax extensions are enabled on every main site?
I'm the creator of the Stack Snippet that is used in Which Stack Exchange sites use MathJax?. I set out on creating that script to fully generate the content of that answer.
As MichaelT also noticed ...
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Titles with MathJax break in the related questions
The issue appears to be that the page's CSS causes the links in the sidebar to be display: flex, and that changes how the children are treated. The content is no longer a paragraph-like structure ...
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Why are subsites' MathJax delimiters different?
Because in some sites, MathJax was enabled later on after a request by the community, and dollar signs were already used in posts. 'Blindly' activating MathJax would break the formatting on those ...
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How to ask a mathematics question using the right symbols and operators?
First, check whether the site you're posting on actually supports MathJax: Which Stack Exchange sites use MathJax?
There's a tutorial/reference guide on Mathematics Meta; there you will find how to ...
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How can I draw geometric shapes in my question?
No, not really. MathJax is primarily built to display mathematical equations, not mathematical pictures. They don't explicitly state it's not supported, but they do state the following about their ...
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What delimiters work for MathJax?
Here are the delimiters that I confirmed to work on MathOverflow (it will be a bit different on sites that use \$ instead of $). I’m not sure if the list is comprehensive; feel free to fix it if ...
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Revision history and suggested edits pages don't recognize non-standard MathJax delimiters
The issue there is not that \begin{equation}...\end{equation} is not recognized, it is that the two equations involved (the original in red and the new in green) both include \label{1}, and so when ...
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Prerequisites to enable mhchem on a site
As with all site-specific formatting, it needs to be enabled by staff, and they usually do so after it's clear that there's enough support from the community, which is usually gathered through a ...
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In 2022, what actually happens to a candidate question for the HNQ when MathJax is in the title? (e.g. edit changing n=25 to "$n=25$")
It would be good to have a staff member answering this, but I can provide some observational evidence that the rule is still in place, with the help of the Stack Exchange Data Explorer. The Hot ...
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Where can I ask if a bug affects multiple sites?
If the bug is specific to a site, use the site's meta.
If you've found the bug on multiple sites, post it on Meta.SE. Even though Meta.SE does not use MathJax itself, bugs that are apparent on ...
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MathJax preview bug
There's nothing to work on; the problem hasn't been consistently reproduced.
I'm sure that doesn't make you feel any better, and I wish I could help... But it's hard to fix a problem if you don't know ...
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