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hgr comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11811)

hgr — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:15:30 -0800

Everything back to normal. Thanks Anton.

Harry Gindi comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11810)

Harry Gindi — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:05:10 -0800

+1 Anton!

Anton Geraschenko comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11809)

Anton Geraschenko — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:43:41 -0800

I think I figured out what's going on. Short story: it's my fault.

Long story. It looked like the MathJax svn mirror hadn't been updated in about a month. I prefer to simply check out the latest stable copy rather than try to keep track of what copies of everything I have. So I decided to clone the MathJax git repository to update the fonts. This was correct, but I forgot about one crucial bit that we need to make MathJax function properly on MO. Since MathJax is hosted on a different server from MO itself, Firefox's same origin policy prevents the webfonts from loading. This can be fixed with an .htaccess file, and now it should be.

Please let me know if you're still experiencing any problems.

Harry Gindi comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11808)

Harry Gindi — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:41:56 -0800

Someone on math.SE noted that there is a MathJax fix, and that the admins here need to update, at which point...

all will be well.

hgr comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11804)

hgr — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:31:54 -0800

My firefox has now automatically upgraded to 3.6.13, but the same problems still occur.

And no I'm *not* getting these problems on Math.se

In internet explorer 8 the display is OK when it eventually renders but it is very slow.

WillieWong comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11727)

WillieWong — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:23:51 -0800

@Anton: installing the fonts. will report back later.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11720)

Anton Geraschenko — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:15:26 -0800

I suspect you can solve the problem (as well as speed up math rendering) by installing the STIX fonts. Obviously we don't want people to have to install these fonts to get the site to work, so this isn't a real solution.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11716)

Anton Geraschenko — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:52:41 -0800

It seems like math.SE is also running with the new fonts. Can you confirm that you have the same problem there?

Anton Geraschenko comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11714)

Anton Geraschenko — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:25:51 -0800

I updated our MathJax fonts last night (see the MathJax news page), which is surely the source of the problem.

Does clearing your cache help? Is this widespread enough that I should revert to the old fonts, or should we be trying to push through and solve this some other way?

Todd Trimble comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11713)

Todd Trimble — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:06:40 -0800

Had the same problem with a displayed line which wasn't rendering correctly. I'm also using 3.6.12.

Andrey Rekalo comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11712)

Andrey Rekalo — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:31:36 -0800

I've had the same problem today (running Google Chrome 8.0.552.215 for Windows). It works fine, however, with Firefox/3.6.12.

hgr comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11710)

hgr — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:53:16 -0800

I'm not using 3.6.13, I'm using 3.6.12. I've just checked -it's still version 12 I'm on.

This problem doesn't seem to be with Firefox. The change must be with Mathajax.

Daniel Geisler comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11709)

Daniel Geisler — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:56:59 -0800

Note: Firefox just made an update with version 3.6.13 that broke MathJax, what a number of math web sites are using to display LaTeX. MathJax has released a update that should fix the problem as system admins update their version of MathJax.

hgr comments on "LaTeX not rendering" (11706)

hgr — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:58:49 -0800

I'm using firefox on windows. I am running Windows in High-contrast black and white mode.

Today I found that equations on MO have become invisible, even though they I have been able to read MO perfectly Ok in the past.

So I switched off High-contrast black and white mode, and some of the equations are now visible.

It seems the implementation of Mathajax has changed to display images instead of Mathml.

I sometimes browse with images turned off to speed things up, but MO is unreadable now with images turned off.

M.SE still displays things with mathml.

For example the following question has lots of Latex but is perfectly viewable with images turned off, and still perfectly visible with High-contrast black and white mode on.

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/14004/convergence-of-series-involving-iterated-sin

Tip: If you want to see the Latex source but the question or answer hasn't been edited, just turn javascript off.