New math rendering engine

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by cuBerBruce

So is the intent to mangle all existing posts containing dollar signs? I think that's ludicrous.

$ No only those with two not slashed dollar signs get mangled I think otherwise the last dollar sign would've been mangling things in that post. \$ See oh and that post could of just used CAD and USD and been fine.edit2+: I just quoted to check, I think as long as it contains anything tex can't/won't parse like the URL in between them it's fine as well.

[retina]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Note to those of you who, like me, use site-selective Javascript enable/disablement - one must allow JS for both mersenneforum.org and mathjax.org in order to see the rendered TeX.

I see the tex stuff perfectly fine.

Originally Posted by ramshanker

[cuBerBruce]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

$ No only those with two not slashed dollar signs get mangled I think otherwise the last dollar sign would've been mangling things in that post. \$ See oh and that post could of just used CAD and USD and been fine.edit2+: I just quoted to check, I think as long as it contains anything tex can't/won't parse like the URL in between them it's fine as well.

So is some admin going to edit all old posts to change every dollar sign to a backslash dollar sign or whatever is needed to undo any mangling? People in the past had no reason to expect putting dollar signs in a post would cause it to get mangled in the future.

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by cuBerBruce

So is some admin going to edit all old posts to change every dollar sign to a backslash dollar sign or whatever is needed to undo any mangling?

Send us a PM with the link to the broken posts and we will fix them.

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by retina

Is relying upon external resources really a good idea?

http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/start.html

The easiest way to use MathJax is to link directly to the public installation available through the MathJax Content Distribution Network (CDN). When you use the MathJax CDN, there is no need to install MathJax yourself, and you can begin using MathJax right away

The CDN will automatically arrange for your readers to download MathJax files from a fast, nearby server. And since bug fixes and patches are deployed to the CDN as soon as they become available, your pages will always be up to date with the latest browser and devices.

[cuBerBruce]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Send us a PM with the link to the broken posts and we will fix them.

Mike, you are being absolutely ridiculous. Do the global search yourself to find them all. If you are going to so unreasonably break compatibility with existing posts, then you definitely ought to be prepared to do this yourself.

Even the Mathjax site itself warns against using a single dollar sign as the delimiter. And noobs on the forum are not going to realize that a dollar sign is going to be treated as a special character. Use a better "escape sequence" and fix the posts in this thread is a much more sensible thing to do.

[Xyzzy]

The $ issue is only going to affect posts that have multiple dollar signs in a single line.

Check out this thread: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=13922

No problems despite lots of $ signs. (Okay, a few, but we fixed those!)

The few broken posts will be easy to fix once identified.

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by WraithX

Or the current version of MathJax could be hosted locally on the mersenneforum server. This would eliminate an external dependency, potentially allow for faster mathjax loading, and reduce Javascript (en|dis)ablement to just mersenneforum.

That is an option if enough people want to go that way. (We like not having to worry about updates but we are willing to do a little extra work if necessary.)

[S485122]

Originally Posted by cuBerBruce

Even the Mathjax site itself warns against using a single dollar sign as the delimiter. And noobs on the forum are not going to realize that a dollar sign is going to be treated as a special character. Use a better "escape sequence" and fix the posts in this thread is a much more sensible thing to do.

+1 about the escape sequence.

+1 also about the dates (I would prefer to have all dates and times in ISO format as on the GIMPS site (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm[:ss]...)

Many thanks for the hosting, maintaining of the forum nevertheless !

Jacob

[cuBerBruce]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

The $ issue is only going to affect posts that have multiple dollar signs in a single line.

Absolutely false as this post clearly shows. I suspect there are a lots of broken posts.

This is such a bad design I can't believe you want to use it. Even MathJax warns you not use a single dollar sign as the delimiter and deliberately does not make it their default (so their site says).

[cuBerBruce]

Originally Posted by cuBerBruce

Absolutely false as this post clearly shows. I suspect there are a lots of broken posts.

Sorry about the bad link in that post. Fixed it in the above quote (used proper "post" tag as well).