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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problems exporting simple LaTeX math to HTML
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Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> writes:

> [My apologies if this is a repeat. I tried posting this 4 days ago and didn’t see if appear on the list.]
>
> I created the following very simple org file:
>
> ————
>
> #+TITLE: *Math example*
>
> \[ w_j = \nu_j \prod_{l<j} (1-\nu_l), \]
>
>
> ————
>
> This exports to LaTeX fine, but when I export to HTML, the equation comes out as plain text
>
> <p>
> \[ w_j = \nu_j \prod_{l<j} (1-\nu_l), \]
> </p>
>

That's the way it should be if Mathjax is enabled (which it is by
default): Mathjax should then interpret that and print out a nicely
formatted equation when you view it in the browser. *However*, Mathjax
has a limitation with "<": one workaround is to surround the < with
spaces:

 \[ w_j = \nu_j \prod_{l < j} (1-\nu_l), \]

See:
   http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/tex.html#tex-and-latex-in-html-documents

-- 
Nick