Issue with LaTeX math mode from bibliography

[mbarbetti]

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Describe the bug MathJax partially fails in rendering LaTeX math mode of abstracts content in papers.bib. Issues identified:

• The mathematical expressions remove the whitespace that follows
• The ~ symbol is ignored
• The \mbox{...} function is unrecognized
• Longer superscripting fails

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to _bibliography/papers.bib
2. Add a new article like what follows

   @article{Aaij:2021lxk,
   abbr={arXiv},
   title={Angular analysis of the rare decay \(B_s^0 \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-\)},
   collaboration={LHCb Collaboration},
   author={Aaij, R. and others},
   abstract={An angular analysis of the rare decay \(B_s^0 \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-\) is presented,
           using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass 
           energies of \(7\), \(8\) and \(13~\mbox{TeV}\), corresponding to an integrated luminosity 
           of \(8.4~\mbox{fb}^{−1}\). The observables describing the angular distributions of the 
           decay \(B_s^0 \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-\) are determined in regions of \(q^2\), the square of 
           the dimuon invariant mass. The results are consistent with Standard Model predictions.},
   journal={arXiv preprint},
   year={2021},
   month={July},
   arxiv={2107.13428},
   selected={true}
   }

3. Open the corresponding abstract on the publications page
4. See error

Expected behavior Adding the abstract text directly within the bib.html file, MathJax is able to render correctly the LaTeX content desidered. How can I obtain the same result from papers.bib?

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System:

• OS: Windows 10 Home (v21H1)
• Browser: Microsoft Edge (v91.0.864.67)
• Jekyll version: 4.2.0
• Ruby version: 2.7.0p0

[alshedivat]

@mbarbetti, thanks for the detailed bug report. Could you double check that the math you are trying to render works when used outside of bibliography? E.g., does the same math render correctly when you use in a post (like this one)?

[mbarbetti]

@alshedivat, I have checked that before opening this issue, and I can confirm that the LaTeX content attached is correctly rendered within MD and HTML files. I fear that is an issue related to the conversion from BibTeX, it is possible?

[alshedivat]

Overriding the behavior of latex-decode instead of entirely turning off bibtex_filters might be the best solution to this: https://github.com/inukshuk/jekyll-scholar/issues/2#issuecomment-205472207.

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