# Strange rendering of LaTeX

I am on Windows XP running Chrome and IE 7. Both of them render this type of $\LaTeX$. Is there anything that I can do to fix it?

Chrome version : Version 22.0.1229.79 m

XP Professional; Version 2002; Service Pack 3

IE 7 Version 7.0.5730.13

The problem is that equations in-line do not show, but paragraph equations show just fine.

• Works fine for me on XP with IE8 and Chrome 5. – Bill Dubuque Oct 5 '12 at 13:24
• @Bill I don't think it is a problem that everyone faces. I think it is only certain people (i.e. myself). – picakhu Oct 5 '12 at 13:40
• What version of Chrome and XP are you running? Does the problem persist after reloading the page? After clearing the browser cache? Does the problem with in-line equations occur only after a displaystyle ("paragraph") equation? (e.g. look at post with no displaystyle equations) – Bill Dubuque Oct 5 '12 at 13:55
• @pica just to clarify: is this on all questions or just this one. – Willie Wong Oct 5 '12 at 14:47
• @Bill what it is worth, in the image there are some inline math in the title of the post which appears "before" the body text in the HTML source. – Willie Wong Oct 5 '12 at 14:51
• @willie, it is on all questions, though there is a difference sometimes. – picakhu Oct 5 '12 at 15:02
• Oh, your second image shows something interesting! The parts that are displayed are not in a displayed math (double \$ enclosed) environment. They are actually inline! The difference is that there is a \begin ... \end environment pair for the matrix. So the difference may be more subtle than just inline versus displayed mathematics. – Willie Wong Oct 5 '12 at 15:43
• Do you have any extensions installed in Chrome. In particular, any that might be loading their own copy of MathJax? It looks like the configuration doesn't include dollar signs as in-line math delimiters. That is the default for MathJax (math.SE enables them explicitly), so it looks like something may be changing the configuration for you. @WillieWong, MathJax looks for \begin...\end and turns them into display math, so if the in-line delimiters don't include dollars, MathJax will find those tags within them and make them displays. – Davide Cervone Oct 6 '12 at 11:31
• Can you try typing javascript:alert(MathJax.Extension.tex2jax.config.inlineMath) in the URL typein at the top of the browser and let us know what it reports. If it doesn't include dollar signs, then that is the problem. – Davide Cervone Oct 6 '12 at 11:33
• nothing happens on Chrome: It redirects to google.com/… – picakhu Oct 8 '12 at 15:55
• Make sure you do it from the page where you are seeing the error, and make sure the javascript: gets pasted in. I just tried it and it seems that Chrome removes the javascript: (probably for security reasons), so you may have to type that yourself. – Davide Cervone Oct 8 '12 at 17:06
• @Davide, you are correct, it does not show dollar signs. – picakhu Oct 8 '12 at 19:37
• So do you have any extensions installed that might be affecting the MathJax configuration? The dollar sign configuration is included explicitly in the page, so I don't see how that could not be getting to MathJax unless you had something else overriding it. – Davide Cervone Oct 8 '12 at 21:07
• @Davide, No, nothing is installed. This behavior is observed on both Chrome and IE – picakhu Oct 8 '12 at 21:52
• I am not able to reproduce the problem. Both IE7 and Chrome 22 work fine for me in Windows XP. So I'm thinking there must be something unusual about your setup. Let's take this off line for now until we figure it out; please contact me via email: dpvc at union dot edu. – Davide Cervone Oct 9 '12 at 13:03