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orsharir / github-mathjax

Chrome extension for rendering LaTeX equations in GitHub with MathJax
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Underscore conflict problem (fixed) #36

Closed raffaello-camoriano closed 4 years ago

raffaello-camoriano commented 4 years ago

It recently happened to me that the plugin would not render some equations involving underscores, probably due to a conflict with GitHub's markdown renderer.

e.g., expressions of the form $\bar{x}_{i'}$ would not be rendered in GitHub issues, while $x_i$ would.

I found out that backslashing the troublesome underscores fixed the problem in this case, as it was suggested for related problems in https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/329

e.g. $\bar{x}\_{i'}$

traversaro commented 4 years ago

Normally also having a space can help, i.e. ($\bar{x} _{i'}$):

$\bar{x}_{i'}$