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Comments on HTML tag removal logic interferes with inequalities in MathJax

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HTML tag removal logic interferes with inequalities in MathJax

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I'm just writing an answer in Mathematics, and wanted to include an inequality: ..., if $m<n$, ...

On typing this, I got the following message:

Unsupported HTML detected

The following HTML tags and attributes are unsupported and will be removed from the final post:

<n$,>

Now clearly I wasn't trying to write a HTML tag. And writing inequalities is a pretty basic thing in mathematics.

In my specific case, I can easily replace it with $m\le n$ without changing anything relevant, but in general this will not be possible.

Before removing any tags, the software should first make sure that it actually is a tag.

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Does adding space help, e.g. $m < n$ ? I've never run into this issue, but I think every time I've u... (2 comments)
Does adding space help, e.g. $m < n$ ? I've never run into this issue, but I think every time I've u...
Derek Elkins‭ wrote 3 months ago

Does adding space help, e.g. $m < n$ ? I've never run into this issue, but I think every time I've used a strict inequality n was either a number or I used >.

celtschk‭ wrote 3 months ago

I just tried it, and it indeed works that way. But I still consider it a bug that the original way didn't work, although with the workaround it's not that critical.