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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Strange latex symbol behavior on html export
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Consider this markup:
>>
>> ------------
>> * MATHEMATICS AUXILIARY
>>
>> ** deriving sines and cosines
>>
>> #+caption: Right triangle with two $\pi\big/4$ angles.
>> [[file:images/45-45-triangle.png]]
>>
>> $\big/$
>> ------------
>>
>> If I remove the second $\big/$, the first latex, $\pi\big/4$, in the
>> caption will not properly render on export to html. Include it and both
>> render just fine. Without the second, the first looks like this:
>>
>> Figure 1: Right triangle with two \(\pi\big/4\) angles.
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>
> If you use
>
>   #+options: tex:dvipng
>
> the symbol in the caption is correctly rendered. It may be a bug in Mathjax.
>

I looked at the diff between html files produced with and without the $\big/$ addition.
The one without does not include any of the mathjax configuration code at all. Is that
code included conditionally perhaps when a latex construct is seen? Maybe the latex construct
in the caption does not trigger the inclusion?

-- 
Nick