[$]Recent-update-has-broken-the-dollar-sign[/$]

[NBtarheel_33]

Mike, just a heads-up that the trolls have broken something again...

Everywhere in the forum that there is a dollar sign, the text following it (apparently up until the next dollar sign) is being rendered as TeX.

For example, "I spent \$5 on a hamburger, fries, and a soda." Or "If I find a Mersenne prime, I might receive an award of at least \$1,000, but probably not more than \$5,000."

See what I mean?

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33

Mike, just a heads-up that the trolls have broken something again...

Everywhere in the forum that there is a dollar sign, the text following it (apparently up until the next dollar sign) is being rendered as TeX.

For example, "I spent \$5 on a hamburger, fries, and a soda." Or "If I find a Mersenne prime, I might receive an award of at least \$1,000, but probably not more than \$5,000."

See what I mean?

it's not everywhere and a simple slash can stop it I know I've helped find close to 700 posts with it. see the new math rendering engine thread.

[NBtarheel_33]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

it's not everywhere and a simple slash can stop it I know I've helped find close to 700 posts with it. see the new math rendering engine thread.

It seems as though there might/should be a patch for something like this, rather than having to painstakingly inspect individual posts. There are a few posts that I have encountered where this error has made mincemeat out of a significant amount of content, not to mention the damage that it likely does to search results.

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33

It seems as though there might/should be a patch for something like this, rather than having to painstakingly inspect individual posts. There are a few posts that I have encountered where this error has made mincemeat out of a significant amount of content, not to mention the damage that it likely does to search results.

the hardest part for me is coming up with terms to search on google to find them without getting locked out of searching then it's as simple as waiting for the page to load it and copying the link to the post. the hardest ones to catch are the shortest ones where the next dollar sign may only be 4 characters away most threads are fine I find. this is mostly because of tags used like never mind it keeps failing after I save changes or may stop it from parsing. that's partly why the donation threads aren't messed up because they contain list items that don't contain more than 1 dollar sign mostly. if there's code tags in between for example it won't render so all code that's within code tags should be safe so will all posts where most of the tags interfere but won't stop it from rendering inside most but not all of them so if two dollar signs are within quote tags or list item tags they will render so there's a complex set of conditions for them to render or not. edit:okay spacing seems to make it work without space it just turns it red.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by science_man_88

it's not everywhere and a simple slash can stop it I know I've helped find close to 700 posts with it. see the new math rendering engine thread.

Originally Posted by 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.

Don't say you weren't warned. Also, I've no intention of starting to slashify (or whatever) my $ - way too many of those floating around in the Soapbox econ threads I tend for that extra pause-while-composing. And yes, the 'fancy n00' math rendering still magically gets replaced by straight lines for me a few seconds after posts containing 'sweet inline-rendered TeX' load.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Don't say you weren't warned. Also, I've no intention of starting to slashify (or whatever) my $ - way too many of those floating around in the Soapbox econ threads I tend for that extra pause-while-composing. And yes, the 'fancy n00' math rendering still magically gets replaced by straight lines for me a few seconds after posts containing 'sweet inline-rendered TeX' load.$

Fixed that for you (I only added a dollar sign at the end of the
paragraph - not same line, just same paragraph - to pair the
dollar sign that you had after "my", because you forgot to
pair your dollar signs)

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Don't say you weren't warned. Also, I've no intention of starting to slashify (or whatever) my $ - way too many of those floating around in the Soapbox econ threads I tend for that extra pause-while-composing. And yes, the 'fancy n00' math rendering still magically gets replaced by straight lines for me a few seconds after posts containing 'sweet inline-rendered TeX' load.

well a lot of the formatting you put into your posts may interfere so that helps let's try a few examples:

How many $ can I post safely $ :

1. Hello$
2. $world

• cool$
• extraordinary$

$ WoW $

$wow

$

I'm lame I know

$

But who really cares

$ 2^$p-1 turns out a lot of $ $ Law of Strings $ $

$wow$$wow$$wow$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Mark Rose]

$w00t w00t$ :)

$ANewWayToWriteItalics$

But what annoys me, is if I want to say electricity costs $0.10 to $0.15/kWh.

[science_man_88]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

$w00t w00t$ :)

$ANewWayToWriteItalics$

But what annoys me, is if I want to say electricity costs $0.10 to $0.15/kWh.

yeah I guess electricity cost($/kwh) =0.10-0.15 kind of sucks to write also if you read the documentation in the thread about the rendering engine the text modification isn't something the new format supports. even > and < can mess it up because the html page gets rendered before the text so order of operations determines if the text near those will even be visible so < and > are not used without potential for in effect potentially lost text.

[ewmayer]

Like I said, I don't want to be thinking about extraneous math-formatting crap when composing a non-math post. It's not as if $ were rare beasts in english-language writing.

Also, I can read my own $-containing posts perfectly well in my default JS-disabled-for-this-and-most-other-sites browser setup. Keep it simple, keep it low bandwidth, I say.

[science_man_88]

Like I said, I don't want to be thinking about extraneous math-formatting crap when composing a non-math post. It's not as if $ were rare beasts in english-language writing.

Also, I can read my own $-containing posts perfectly well in my default JS-disabled-for-this-and-most-other-sites browser setup. Keep it simple, keep it low bandwidth, I say.

it only renders bad when you see it on the page anyone who reads your posts as they reply can see it perfectly fine, also the printer friendly version shows it all as well I guess. there no problem at all except scrolling.