Latex help page not rendering

[PAllen]

For me, at the moment, the latex help page is not rendering. No number of refreshes fixes it. Also, at this moment, preview in replies is not rendereing latex.

 

[TensorCalculus]

Same for me, on Windows devices. I think this bug is in the process of being fixed.

You can still write and render latex on forums - just you will have to write it without previewing.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

This has been fixed, thanks!!

 

[TensorCalculus]

@Greg Bernhardt - you're aware that the TeX previewing is still weird right?

(The help page works now! )

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

@Greg Bernhardt - you're aware that the TeX previewing is still weird right?

the tex and itex with brackets should work. The shortcodes of $$ and ## will remain broken. What else?

 

[TensorCalculus]

Yeah, the $$ and ## are still broken - just checking you were aware
If you refresh it sort of works... except then it doesn't let you edit the original post when you turn preview off. And the rendered TeX renders when the preview is off and shows in a different way when you turn on preview.
Weird.

 

[PAllen]

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the tex and itex with brackets should work. The shortcodes of $$ and ## will remain broken. What else?

What other alternative is there? The $$ and ## is the only thing I have ever used! Are there any instructions for the alternative?? If these are no longer supported, shouldn't the help page link shown below every edit screen be corrected??

 

[elias001]

@PAllen, @TensorCalculus ok I found a sort of a solution to the LaTex rendering problem. The solution require some coding in python and assumes that one won't be drawing anything, not even simple commutative diagrams. Arrows symbols are ok.

Anyways, if you can't do a python script, ask one of the LLMs, what it will spit hack out would be very very short, but it is the conditions for allowed and disallowed syntax that you set in the script that will be important.

If you ask a LLM any series physics or math question that will give you answers containing math notations. The formatting in both text and math mode will usually contain the following list of syntax. "\$" and "\$\$" characters are used for mathmode and not the following syntax: $$\verb|\begin{itemize},end{itemize},\begin{document},\end{document}, \section{},\end\{itemize\},\section{},\[,\], \(, \),\item|.$$. So say you have a latex document, tell the script to change anytime there are a single $\$$ to $\#\$#. if you have the double $\$$ symbols, you will have four sharp symbol in total. But that is ok, because you can search for them later searching with ctrl F and replace it with two dollars sign. As for the rest of the list of symbols or whatever else you want to add to the ones in that list above, tell the script to just delete it. After it is done, you should be able to post your stuff on here without much issue.

Use stackedit.io to type out whatever stuff you need to type out and it will give you the preview compiled LaTex in real time. If your LaTex document/code is froman LLM, make sure to tell it to delete all the symbol on that list or to tell it which syntax commands it should not use for your LaTex document.

 

[PAllen]

@PAllen, @TensorCalculus ok I found a sort of a solution to the LaTex rendering problem. The solution require some coding in python and assumes that one won't be drawing anything, not even simple commutative diagrams. Arrows symbols are ok.

Anyways, if you can't do a python script, ask one of the LLMs, what it will spit hack out would be very very short, but it is the conditions for allowed and disallowed syntax that you set in the script that will be important.

If you ask a LLM any series physics or math question that will give you answers containing math notations. The formatting in both text and math mode will usually contain the following list of syntax. "\$" and "\$\$" characters are used for mathmode and not the following syntax: $$\verb|\begin{itemize},end{itemize},\begin{document},\end{document}, \section{},\end\{itemize\},\section{},\[,\], \(, \),\item|.$$. So say you have a latex document, tell the script to change anytime there are a single $\$$ to $\#\$#. if you have the double $\$$ symbols, you will have four sharp symbol in total. But that is ok, because you can search for them later searching with ctrl F and replace it with two dollars sign. As for the rest of the list of symbols or whatever else you want to add to the ones in that list above, tell the script to just delete it. After it is done, you should be able to post your stuff on here without much issue.

Use stackedit.io to type out whatever stuff you need to type out and it will give you the preview compiled LaTex in real time. If your LaTex document/code is froman LLM, make sure to tell it to delete all the symbol on that list or to tell it which syntax commands it should not use for your LaTex document.

The problem is (mostly?) fixed now. Just tested it.