Equation parsing problem

[mathisonian]

Issue by rreusser
Tuesday Jun 13, 2017 at 14:33 GMT
Originally opened as idyll-lang/idyll-compiler#30

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This equation succeeds:

[Equation display:`true`]
\sum_{j=0}^n x^{j} + \sum x^{k}
[/Equation]

and renders like this:

While this equation fails:

[Equation display:`true`]
\sum_{j=0}^n x^{j} + \sum_{k=0}^n x^{k}
[/Equation]

and renders like this:

It seems like maybe the _ is interfering with markdown parsing, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

As usual, work around is [Equation latex:"..."/]

[joshuahhh]

I've run into this problem as well. As a simple example,

Compare [Equation]x_0[/Equation] to [Equation]y_0[/Equation] and you will discover...

renders as

My guess is that the _s are being treated with a higher precedence than [Equation], which is surprising to me.

(But that work-around works. Thanks!)