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Is it OK to abuse Mathjax for emphasis?
I agree that text formatting should be accomplished with Markdown if at all possible. Since Markdown is used across Stack Exchange, there will generally be better support for proper rendering across ...
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Which Latex / MathJax features do we need or want to have supported on the site?
Need:
Most importantly, a true preview which shows me exactly what I have written and which I can look at without affecting my LaTeX.
Support for at least the symbols in standard LaTeX and amssymb (...
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Which Latex / MathJax features do we need or want to have supported on the site?
This is not an answer expressing a preference, but one giving some resources for people to consider.
Intmath.com made a Speed Comparison Test between KaTeX and MathJax. MathOverflow is currently ...
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Numbering and cross referencing of equations in questions and answers
MathJax supports manual numbering using $$\tag{…}$$, as below:
$$\tag{1}\label{grz}\Box(\Box(p\to\Box p)\to p)\to p$$
$$\tag{1}\...
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Would disallowing displayed equations ("double dollars") in titles be useful?
I understand the sentiment to have this blacklist, but I don't think it's really important for MathOverflow to have it. Very few questions have ever had $$ in their ...
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Is it possible to see the source for a comment?
One approach would be to use the MathJax contextual menu to select the "Plain Source" renderer, which will show the TeX commands rather than typeset expressions. That means you would not ...
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Braces don't render in preview
This had to do with the citation helper script - mostly with how I implemented the integration with the editor.
The fix is being deployed right now.
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What's the point of having an *MO* chat without LaTeX enabled?
MathJax in chat
You can find some information on MathJax in chat in the following posts from Mathematics meta:
Should chat have TeX support? You can find in an answer a bookmarklet which you can ...
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How does one type mathematical formulas on this site?
This site uses MathJax - which is a library which for displaying mathematics in web browsers. The syntax is basically LaTeX, so if you are already familiar with TeX or LaTeX you should be fine. (It is ...
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Repeated TeXifying of question titles
The user has been contacted by a moderator. Please advise if the behavior persists.
Todd TrimbleMod
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Formatting problem
This had to do with the citation helper script - mostly with how I implemented the integration with the editor.
The fix is being deployed right now.
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`\intertext` in MathJax
No, MathJax doesn't have an implementation \intertext, as MathJax's internal format is MathML and there is no natural way to accomplish it within the MathML that ...
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`\eqref` across posts
Originally posted as a comment - expanding to an answer, following the request from the OP in a comment.
After a recent edit, the post renders correctly with ...
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Having the MO Mathjax parser recognise \( \) is a regex away
The real issue with using \(...\) as math delimiters is the interaction with StackExchange's Markdown engine, since Markdown uses ...
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TeX bug: \mod and \pmod gone
MathJax v2.6 was released on Dec 30, close to the OP. These updates can lead to errors if a browser cache contains a mix of MathJax components with different versions. In that case, clearing the ...
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Is it OK to abuse Mathjax for emphasis?
I think the question is too emotionally laden to present the problem correctly. To me it is like "All the preprints use Knuth's computer modern font. How dare we change that?". The use of the word '...
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What is a supported use of \hfill?
MathJax doesn't have the idea of stretchable glue that TeX uses to implement \hfill, so it can only be used in limited situations in MathJax, namely at the ...
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Writing a bar on top of a number
To give the question an answer so it can be accepted: you can use $\overline{...}$ to get a bar over any letter or digit or group thereof.
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One number on top of another with mathjax?
Like this:
$\begin{eqnarray*} & 682 \\ -&426 \\ \hline \end{eqnarray*}$
$\begin{eqnarray*} & 682 \\ -&426 \\ \hline \end{eqnarray*}$
For general $...
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FAQ on typesetting of formulae hard to find
One could make the argument that someone unfamiliar with LaTeX probably won't have the requisite background to contribute meaningfully in this site. Granted, there are some peculiarities with MathJax.
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Triangle commutative diagram does not work here at MO
Added in 2022. The website mentioned below does not work now - so this is no longer an option. (It seems that it has been down for some time. And the corresponding GitHub repository seems to be ...
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Double overline renders poorly, except in MathML
StackExchange hasn't upgraded the version of MathJax that they are using in quite some time. They are using v2.7.5, which is more than 4 years old. The current version is 3.2.2, which handles the ...
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Why do `* *`s and `** **`s stop being recognised at some point, and how can I fix the resulting inadvertent vandalism?
The post "HTML comments break formatting from that point" on Meta Stack Exchange mentions that problems can be caused by an incorrectly entered HTML comment
...
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The math! It's overflowing!
The problem is caused by the fact that if a comment contains many consecutive characters without a space, the Stack Exchange software inserts invisible unicode character (\unicode{x200C}\unicode{...
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Is it possible to use tikzcd code in MO posts?
To the best of my knowledge the only type of commutative diagrams supported by MathJax is AMSCd.
Some info on commutative diagrams can be also found here: How to draw a commutative diagram? There is ...
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How does one type mathematical formulas on this site?
You can find a very basic introduction to MathJax (LaTeX) syntax in the other answer. Here are links to some further resources that might be useful. (Some of them are not specifically about MathJax, ...
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Is it OK to abuse Mathjax for emphasis?
Once typographers are allowed to run amok, there is no way back to normality. For it'd be only a question of time for multi-coloured flashing parts of text, and what not, to start to appear.
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Triangle commutative diagram does not work here at MO
This is a community wiki answer made explicitly for testing.
$$\require{AMScd}\begin{CD}
A \\
@VVV \\
B
\end{CD}$$
$$\require{AMScd}\begin{CD}
A \\
@VVV \\
B
\...
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