2018-11-04T13:07:44-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1033/tex-issue/?Focus=14347#Comment_14347 2011-04-30T09:56:34-07:00 2018-11-04T13:07:44-08:00 StevenLandsburg http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/544/

an_mo_user: Thanks! This solved the problem.

http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1033/tex-issue/?Focus=14346#Comment_14346 2011-04-30T09:47:01-07:00 2018-11-04T13:07:44-08:00 an_mo_user http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/491/

I am not sure this will resolve your issue, but it might.For certain, and I believe in particular if sub and/or superscripts are used, tex-commands it is needed to place them into back-ticks like ...

For certain, and I believe in particular if sub and/or superscripts are used, tex-commands it is needed to place them into back-ticks like this `$ a_b^2 $` (at the start and the end the same ` and not ' ).

The rough reason is, and I do not know the precise one, that two programs try to process the source and one needs to prevent one of them with the ticks to 'destroy' the tex.]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1033/tex-issue/?Focus=14345#Comment_14345 2011-04-30T09:21:23-07:00 2018-11-04T13:07:44-08:00 StevenLandsburg http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/544/

Can someone explain to me why LaTex is ignoring some of my dollar signs in <a ...

The problem was cropping up in several places; I managed to solve most of with small edits, though I have no idea why those edits worked. One remains unresolved.]]>