Change default MathJax renderer in Insights to Common HTML

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I was reading Demystifier's recent insight post, when I found that all the inline equations were overlapping with each other and were not quite readable:

Phone screenshot of a Physics Forums page with overlapping inline math: p2 = (1 - p1)p1 and p3 = (1 - p1)^2 p1 collide with nearby text, which is hard to read.


While on PC it is quite easy to change the MathJax renderer, on mobile, it is not. You have to go on tapping and hope that the MathJax options come up.

Mobile browser screenshot showing a MathJax context menu over a physics text, with options Show Math As, Zoom Trigger, Zoom Factor, and a renderer list where HTML-CSS is checked.


Can the default MathJax renderer be changed to Common HTML, similar to what it is in the main forums?
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
hmmm what OS and browser are you using? In my tests it works fine. The config should be the same as the forums.
OS is Android 6.0.1, and browser is Chrome.
 
Looks OK under Android 8.0.0 (both Chrome and whatever browser S7 uses as a default one).
 
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The LaTeX looks fine on my phone (Android 9, Chrome 72.0.3626.105)
Screenshot of a mobile web page of printed text with rendered equations on probability of eventually winning a repeated game, where P = p + (1-p)p + (1-p)^2 p + ... and the geometric series sum equals 1/(1-q).


Maybe it has to do with the larger text size on the OP's phone.
 
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Ygggdrasil said:
Maybe it has to do with the larger text size on the OP's phone.
I changed the text scaling recently to about 150% from the previous 100%. It could be a result of that.