problems with LaTex interpreter

[Romsek]

I was posting today and the preview would show LaTex codes being interpreted fine but then one line of the bunch was just showing up as the raw codes once submitted.

Ideas? It wasn't complicated LaTex.

 

[pka]

I was posting today and the preview would show LaTex codes being interpreted fine but then one line of the bunch was just showing up as the raw codes once submitted.
Ideas? It wasn't complicated LaTex.

That happens quite a bit with this LeTeX compiler. Sometimes it appears with a box around it.
I think it is very picky. Often an extraneous { or } will cause it.
Sometimes it wants a space somewhere in the code.
I see no clear pattern to its wants and dislikes.

 

[JeffM]

I was posting today and the preview would show LaTex codes being interpreted fine but then one line of the bunch was just showing up as the raw codes once submitted.

Ideas? It wasn't complicated LaTex.

One of the things that this compiler does that can be very exasperating is that if you use in LaTeX a word that is a key word for the site, the line of LaTex in which the key word first appears does not render in the post, but does render in the preview. Example

\(\displaystyle mean = \dfrac{\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^nx_i}{n}\) renders perfectly in preview, but not at all when posted.

Note the word in blue: it is a key word for the site.

Say the exact same thing later and you get what you expect: \(\displaystyle mean = \dfrac{\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^nx_i}{n}\).

This was discussed a year or so ago and has something to do with the sequencing of actions in the posting routine. The solution (workaround is better) is that if you must must use a key word in LaTex, figure out some way to use the key word in plain text before you use it in LaTeX. The diagnostic of this situation is that the LaTeX renders in preview mode, but not when posted, and the key word will show up in blue in what you thought was going to be LaTeX..

 

[Romsek]

One of the things that this compiler does that can be very exasperating is that if you use in LaTeX a word that is a key word for the site, the line of LaTex in which the key word first appears does not render in the post, but does render in the preview. Example

\(\displaystyle mean = \dfrac{\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^nx_i}{n}\) renders perfectly in preview, but not at all when posted.

Note the word in blue: it is a key word for the site.

Say the exact same thing later and you get what you expect: \(\displaystyle mean = \dfrac{\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^nx_i}{n}\).

This was discussed a year or so ago and has something to do with the sequencing of actions in the posting routine. The solution (workaround is better) is that if you must must use a key word in LaTex, figure out some way to use the key word in plain text before you use it in LaTeX. The diagnostic of this situation is that the LaTeX renders in preview mode, but not when posted, and the key word will show up in blue in what you thought was going to be LaTeX..

I think this is exactly what was going on.