Questions tagged [mathjax]
For questions about MathJax, which is used to write mathematics on Stack Exchange sites.
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Typing absolute values [closed]
When I type this
I get this
How can I get the fraction properly centred?
Edit: testing another version here (typed, not pasted)
$$\left|\frac xy\right|$$
displays correctly in Chrome and in the ...
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LaTeX/MathJax does not render in some question thumbnail
Sometimes I have question thumbnail that does not render LaTeX:
I have compared my code with other posts, I do not found differences that can explain this behavior.
What can cause LaTeX or MathJax ...
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Why was a bold, unrelated font chosen for formatted equations?
When reviewing my question, I realized that the body changes three times during the loading of the page (the screenshots below were taken as the page was loading, at various stages - there is a ~1 ...
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Tableau as an answer
I was not sure whether to ask this question here or the main Math SE. Regardless, please do move it as you see fit. I wanted to answer a question; however, I could not because I don't know how to ...
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Copy my original MathJax from my comment into paste buffer? [duplicate]
How can I copy one of my comments which is MathJax format and paste it in the solution since nobody answered my question? I have developed the answer in a comment.
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\mathit only works with preview mode?
Earlier I added an example to MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference, but it seems that \mathit only works in preview. Is there any suitable alternative?
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MathJax rendering in preview but not in actual post?
So I just passed the 2,000 rep threshold this morning and, eager to try out my newfound powers of automatic editing, I went ahead and looked for the first post I could find that could use some ...
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MathJax broken by font clash in Related Questions and Hot Meta questions under new responsive design
We used to render the Related Questions and the Hot Meta Question lists in
Georgia so that they looked right when combined with MathJax. Now we don’t,
and it looks... suboptimal (i.e., ...
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MathJax not always rendering tag-question summaries due to early $truncati [duplicate]
Sometimes the question summaries don’t get all their MathJax rendered. For example, from the summation tag questions you see this:
It looks to me like this bug is caused by the truncation of the ...
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Feature request: LaTeX preview in *comments*
I would like to request that a preview be generated when writing comments, the same way that one is generated when writing a question.
This is particularly relevant in math forums where LaTeX ...
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Can I put formula numbers in a question or an answer?
Suppose I'm writing a question like
blah blah blah $$a=0$$ blah blah blah
I want to put (1) at the very right of the line that has $a=0$. Can I do that?
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Where to report MathJax bugs?
TL;DR: What is a suitable place where to report MathJax bugs?
I mean the bugs which seem to be issues with MathJax in general - not specific to this site or Stack Exchange network.
Often some ...
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How does MSE do live previews of MathJax?
How does MSE do live previews of MathJax? I need this for my own site.
I am not a JavaScript developer but I can copy / paste some code into the right place. I'm using Bubble to create a learning ...
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Using \$ \$ when typing matrices
I have this matrix:
$ \begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} $
and I want to show a new user how to type this, by adding \$ \$:
\$ \begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} ...
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Provide \degree symbol in MathJax
A while ago I posted an answer to the MathJax tutorial meta question about the right way to write a degree symbol. The latest edit (with which I'm not really happy) discusses, among other things, the ...
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How does one add missing latex commands or see all available commands in math exchange site?
I wanted to write the \underbar in the [mathexchange site][1], but it wasn't possible when using \underbar{}. Is it possible to ...
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Bug in math.stackexchange MathJax editor
When answering a question the editor sometimes pops up an image which covers the line one is trying to edit as seen in the image below.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
My usual fix is to ...
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Can I use Mathematics Stack Exchange's MathJax for uses different than those intended?
I am participating in the IYMC and need to type some answers. As a member of this site for $9$ months, I find myself much more comfortable typing in MathJax than in Microsoft Word. So I hope that I ...
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Is it a bug that over/under braces vary in size for same-size expressions?
In this question on the Puzzling Stack Exchange, I wrote this answer with some Mathjax, but it formatted a little weirdly. Here is what I wrote:
Some unecessary information, blah blah blah
The ...
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How to perform a line break? [duplicate]
I entered text with line breaks in the body but it doesn't show in the question.
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Lower-case blackboard bold displays inconsistently
Lower-case blackboard bold (\mathbb) letters display inconsistently for different users: for me, they display (incorrectly, I assume) as plain Latin font. See ...
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How do I do dot inside a letter?
A First Course in Complex Analysis by Matthias Beck, Gerald Marchesi, Dennis Pixton, and Lucas Sabalka Ch9.1
Circle: $C[z_0,R] = |z-z_0| = R$
Disc: ...
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Bug in arrays within display-math mode
In this recent answer, I needed to define a set with several defining conditions, as follows:
$$G(p)=\left\{f:S\to S\left|\, \begin{array}[l]\bullet f\circ p=p\circ f=f\\ f\mid_{\operatorname{Im}p}:\...
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Possibility to access the code of people's comments
Very often I enter the edit mode of a post just to copy-paste some parts of it, often to get a sample of some MathJax complex syntax.
It may happen every once in a while that you want to do that with ...
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Slow scrolling because of MathJax
I was scrolling through the answers of this question of mine and the cursor hanged frequently. It even took time to load the content. Even while typing comments, my laptop hanged and the speed was ...
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How to write question on MSE offline?
I have recently downloaded MathJax-2.7.4 and successfully render test htmls in folder test.
Then I save the webpage https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/ask offline to write question. But when I ...
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Adding MathJax for new user versus adding a comment
Forgive me if this is a dupe.
It happens frequently that new users post questions without using MathJax (either using Unicode, ASCII, an image, etc.).
Sometimes, I see experienced users comment ...
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copy written text in Microsoft Word into stack websites [duplicate]
I wrote a mathematical equation in Microsoft word and now want to copy it into math stack exchange but it doesn't work and give me wrong format.
for example:
(total-0 correct edge)/total
which ...
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long delay in MathJax rendering on a certain page
When I edit this answer, it takes ages to render the MathJax, quite unlike on other pages, where it's a matter of a second or two. When it does render, the big eqnarray* equation is on a single line ...
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Transforming numbers in a matrix structure into color squares
Suppose we have a matrix of numbers
$$\begin{matrix}
1 & 3 & 2 & 4 \\
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \end{matrix}$$
I would like to ...
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Typesetting the Dynkin Diagrams with MathJax
I just posted a question where I typeset the $E_6$, $E_7$, and $E_8$ Dynkin diagrams using MathJax:
$$
E_6\;
\begin{aligned}
&\>\bullet \\[-1ex]
&\,\,\mid \\[-1ex]
\bullet-\bullet-&...
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MathJax bug in tag wiki edit
I have suggested an edit on the tag wiki of circulant-matrices, based on a related tag wiki for hilbert-matrices.
While typing the code, I observed that \\ is ...
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How to set name above a part of a matrix? [closed]
I want to create the matrix that is shown in the image, and my code is:
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How to label equations on the left with mathjax?
In a proper TeX environment, one can use preamble to set the equation labels (tags) on the left for the entire document. There are also tricks to do this locally.
On the webpage here, sometimes a ...
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Can custom TeX/MathJax commands be defined by default for a site?
Recently SE.QuantumComputing started private beta (bit of a misnomer, as users can join freely), and we started a $\mathrm{\TeX}$-tutorial Meta discussion like the one found here at SE.Math.
Since ...
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How to fix the protruding lines in a MathJax table?
$$
\begin{array}{|c|c|c|} \hline
&A&B\\ \hline
X&1&2\\ \hline
Y&3&4\\ \hline
\end{array}
$$
Code:
...
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Mathjax: \pmod {a\over b} renders differently from \pmod {{a\over b}}
I'm surprised that $\pmod {a\over b}$ renders differently from $\pmod {{a\over b}}$
$\pmod {a\over b}$ vs $\pmod {{a\over b}}$ ...
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How to leave lines in between `>!`?
I'll get directly into the question.
When I do something like:
>! (Some text)
>!
>! (Some other text)
It appears as:
How would I get these to ...
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Why is there a character limit for mathematics post edits?
I am seeking to fix a very small (but significant) typo in summation indices for this answer.
In particular, in the last two equations of the post, the summation should start from $i=1$ instead of $i=...
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Cannot find how to write infinity [duplicate]
I am new here. How do I write an infinity symbol above summation symbol. I do not know how to write formula on this site. How do I write series formula? I could figure out how to write summation, but ...
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Is it okay to “edit” questions just to look at the MathJax?
I'm pretty new to MathJax, and one way I've been trying to learn is to click on "edit" for posts that use features I would like to learn. Then I just click "cancel." The last time I did this, I got ...
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MathJax isn't loaded into the comments; browser Firefox
As the title says MathJax isn't loaded into the comments in Firefox (but works fine for the answers!). Does someone else has the same problem? How to fix it? (Everything works fine in Chrome.)
This ...
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Is it possible for me to rotate symbols and operations?
I wanted to rotate $\Box$ $45^\circ$ clockwise to make a diamond. At the time, I did not know there was a diamond command $\diamond$ and $\Diamond$ and $\diamondsuit$ and even things like $\not\...
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Mathjax offline quick latex rendering
I would like to have a real time latex renderer, so I can make a youtube video with a screen recorder and a mic, teaching how to solve a math problem, while I type latex, and the screen shows both my ...
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How to change horizontal spacing in arrays?
$$
\begin{array}{lcr}
& \text{A} & \\[-0.1cm]
& | & \\[-0.1cm]
\text{C} & \text{B} & \text{D} \\[-0.1cm]
& | & \\[-0.1cm]
& \text{E} & \\
\end{array}
$$
How do ...
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How do you tag without brackets? In particular, how do you tag boxes?
How would you tag boxes without brackets after completing a proof? For example, I needed to prove that $$\forall m, n \in \mathbb{N}\cup \{0\}, \ n^{2m + 1} \equiv -1 \pmod {n + 1}$$ I proved this by ...
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mathjax doesn't render in the review section [duplicate]
I recently went to see what is in the queue of the "Suggested Edits" and I saw this:
first I thought that it was just '$' placed wrongly, so I went to edit this myself and saw the following:
this ...
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Should I add MathJax formatting to posts with plain text math?
I personally have noticed a lot of posts were all of the math is written in plain text and have tried my best to fix change them, is this even something that I should even be focusing on, or should I ...
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Challenge: can you draw the following triangular diagram?
I've been struggling to draw the following triangular diagram:
Can I do it in SE or should I forget about it?
Ideally the line for $f'$ should be dashed.
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What is the best way to write a long sentence or paragraph using Roman typeface?
First of all I am not very sure if my question belongs to this site. It can get downvoted or asked for deletion. My apologies beforehand if this is the case.
I often encountered the necessity to ...
