Hi everyone, I’m having an issue with cards that use MathJax in Anki, and I can’t figure out what’s going wrong. Cards that include MathJax are not rendering correctly. When I click on the card editor of an open card, sometimes the MathJax equations get rendered, but this only happens inconsistentl…

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<anki-mathjax> is not valid syntax, and is only used internally by Anki. You should use $ ... $ instead if you are importing material into Anki. Math & Symbols - Anki Manual Anki's user manual. Anki is a flashcard program that makes learning easier.

I believe I am experiencing something similar. It seems like the first time something latex is displayed, it will be correct, and all subsequent times the rendering is absent or partial. Tried with 24.06.3 Qt6 and 24.06.3 Qt5.

Are you using the same incorrect syntax as OP? Are you using MathJax or LaTeX? – see the page linked above

So these are quite old cards, which I’ve only just recently decided to open up again. I know they used to work as-is, but no longer do. The way I was doing it was that the card templates had a script section: <script> MathJax.config.tex.inlineMath = [['$', '$'], ['\$', '\$']]; MathJax.config…

I can confirm that adding the check for getComponents as described in the linked issue seems to solve my problem.

MathJax Not Displaying Correctly in Anki Desktop (v24.06.3) - Inconsistent Rendering Issue

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dae October 8, 2024, 10:10am 7

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