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Problem with escaping $ symbol in math mode
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this question. I recently began getting a problem with writing latex expressions in math mode. Before I post the answer, the preview and expressions ...
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Can we change the order of precedence between back-ticks and dollar signs for SE Markup language and the MathJax plug-in?
I sometimes attempt to use $\mathcal{MathJax}$ to write string-literals wrapped in quotes.
I expected the rendered result to look like this:
Instead the result was this:
For example, we might have ...
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MathJax different in post vs. edit preview
This is a bit strange: in my answer here, the MathJax has incorrect vertical alignment:
But when I go to the edit page to try to fix it, the preview shows the correct formatting, different to what is ...
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Code blocks add extra backslash, if followed by a dollar sign
If you type the characters for "backslash dollar" inside a code block, extra backslashes are displayed. Worse, the rendered output doesn't match the preview. See the example below:
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Typesetting dollars in equations
This answer contained the following excerpt:
$$ \delta(q_0,\lambda,\\\$) = (q_1,\\\$) $$
Unfortunately, the dollar signs are preceded by line breaks. Worse, this doesn't happen in the preview, so it's ...
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mathjax broken for prime + no-braces superscript + subscript
It seems that terms like $q'^a_b$ stopped rendering correctly, since their superscript/subscript are not surrounded by braces (e.g., $q'^{a}_b$ should work). The error shown in preview is ...
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MathJax rendering broken in previews from search
Preview of texts while using search breaks and renders unexpectedly.
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Don't re-render math when editing tags
For some reason, typing in the tag box causes the mathematics in the preview to be rerendered. This causes the textbox to jump around madly, making it impossible to click on a tag.
Please fix this; ...
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MathJax stopped working
MathJax stopped working again. It works fine on other sites such as math.se and cstheory.se. I tried several different browsers and operating systems.
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MathJax broken after submitting an edit
Recently, after I perform an edit, it seems the mathjax rendering takes more space than it is given, resulting with overlapping with the text after it. Example (from q10437, right after editing it):
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Missing MathJaX in the duplicate subtab of the close review queue
When I review a question with a vote to close as duplicate, I see MathJaX formatting for the question body, but not in the tab that shows the proposed duplicate. Chrome 23.0.1271.17 beta in case it ...
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MathJax rendering changes scrolling position
When I follow a link to an answer (e.g. my answer here), the page is scrolled to the correct position. But then MathJax renders all the formulas, thus shifting content around, at which point the ...
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Closing dollar is sometimes not recognized when the math snippet contains a less-than sign
There is a strange interaction between Markdown and MathJax when the character < appears in a math snippet which is followed by some (not all) non-whitespace ...
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Curly brackets not showing in LaTeX display mode
In an answer to this question I wrote the following LaTeX code:
$$L=\{w\in\{0,1\}^*:|w|\geq n\text{ and the $n$-th symbol from the last one is 1}\}.$$
The output ...
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