Questions tagged [mathjax]
MathJax is a JavaScript engine for displaying mathematics in general, and (through the mhchem package) chemical formulas and equations in particular on Chemistry Stack Exchange.
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Mhchem broken on mobile
That's how it looks right now. I don't recall this being a problem earlier. It's like this on other questions as well.
Link to the answer in question: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/55285/...
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How to write physical units
Units have to be written in an upright font. One normally does it this way:
$1.2 \times 10^3\,\mathrm{\frac{J}{mol}}$
$1.2 \times 10^3\,\mathrm{\frac{J}{mol}}$
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Unknown Notations
Are the following notations official? Can I find them in a colored IUPAC book? Do they have a name, I could google for? (I need this to judge whether to support this with mhchem or not.)
Stability of ...
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On mobile, mathjax fails to render \geqslant
When I was browsing the Hot Network Questions today, I came across this answer which on my iPhone 4S (iOS 9.1) looks like this:
On my laptop it renders just fine, and I couldn't find any existing bug ...
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We need some upgreek, please!
Correct typesetting is what you would expect from an academic community. Chem.SE has always tried to be one, and we always value their standards; and our meticulous editors have always had an eye on ...
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Do we really need to badger everyone to use MathJax for chemical formulas?
I've observed it a few times now that negative comments were posts simply because a user was not using MathJax to format chemical formulas. I don't mean gentle encouragements to properly format a post,...
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Bringing Helping Users Format Their Posts (HUFTP) to a whole new level
Behold
A new chatroom is approaching $\ldots$ (It already approached and you weren't there to celebrate)
Rightfully named $(L_A)\TeX/\mathcal{M}_{ath}\mathrm{J}^a\mathrm{x}$ help, this is a chatroom ...
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How to solve mhchem/MathJax rendering problems
Edit: This is not a bug, it is a feature, see my answer post.
While recently directing a new user to this meta post about formatting using MathJax, I noticed that some components were not rendering ...
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(Title LaTeX test) Why does NMR Ix+iIy ($\hat{I}_x+i\hat{I}_y$)
I wanted to test some $\LaTeX$ in the title for myself, and I didn't know any other way to do so.
Why does the transverse magnetization in Fourier Transform NMR consist of Ix+iIy ($\hat{I}_x+i\hat{I}...
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Chemical formulas with fractional numbers are displayed wrongly
According to mhchem manual the following code
\ce{0.5H2O}
should produce the following result
But it does not. Instead, I ...
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Additions to MathJax/mhchem: Cancel, Broken Arrows; SI units
I think sometimes it is necessary to show, that a reaction does not take place, therefore a broken arrow would be a nice thing to have. I played a little in the sandbox and found a somewhat working ...
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A link to common notation and symbols on the Tour page
Most new joiners do not know about the tools for mathematical and chemical formatting provided by Chemistry.SE.
The Tour page details out the core concept of asking questions very well, but I feel ...
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Clumsy view of well-formatted questions: What to do?
Before you ask, I did see this. No problems should be there now, right? However, I ran into wierd (not to mention funny, I laughed for about 5 minutes non-stop) questions; take a look at the pic:
The ...
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Latex Subscripting
How do I write $\ce{C_{2}{v}}$ properly in Latex so that the "2" and the "v" are both subscripted on the same subscript line? If I write it as $\ce{C_{2v}}$ (\ce{C_{2v}), I get an down-arrow symbol ...
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Latex Table Question
Here's a link to a SE question-answer on building tables using Latex. I copied the following bit of Latex code from the top-rated answer and when I pasted it in to an answer on Chemistry SE it didn't ...
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