[IPython-dev] Equation rending in html produced via 'ipython nbconvert --to html' not working

[Doug Blank]

I had that happen once when I had a tab character embedded right before the
string. Try deleting any characters before the first dollar sign.

-Doug


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Fangohr H. <H.FANGOHR at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear IPython team and users,
>
> it looks like I am having an installation/configuration/some-other issue
> on OS X 10.9.4 that leads to this behaviour:
>
> for a notebook x.ipynb (available at
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/temp/nbconvert-html-issue/x.ipynb)
> that contains a markdown cell with input “$x^2$”, the output x.html
> (available at
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/temp/nbconvert-html-issue/x.html)
> is not rendered correctly when an html version of the notebook is produced
> using “ipython nbconvert —to html x.ipynb”.
>
> nbconvert-html-issue $> ipython nbconvert --to html x.ipynb
> [NbConvertApp] Using existing profile dir:
> u'/Users/fangohr/.ipython/profile_default'
> [NbConvertApp] Converting notebook x.ipynb to html
> [NbConvertApp] Support files will be in x_files/
> [NbConvertApp] Loaded template full.tpl
> [NbConvertApp] Writing 184105 bytes to x.html
>
> Both files are available at
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/temp/nbconvert-html-issue/
>
> When
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/temp/nbconvert-html-issue/x.html is
> opened in Safari (or Firefox), the equation shows as the source, i.e.
> "$x^2$”  (including the dollars) or - when Node.js was not installed as
> something like “\(x\^2\)”.
>
> I was hoping for a (mathjax) representation of $x^2$ as in rendered latex,
> i.e. the 2 in superscript.
>
> This used to work in the past, although I can’t make it work now.
>
>
> Some additional information:
>
> I started from a new installation of Python via Anaconda 2.0 (Python 2.7,
> 64 bit for OS X), then updated conda, anaconda, ipython and python-notebook.
>
> $> ipython --version
> 2.2.0
> $> ipython notebook --version
> 2.2.0
> $> ipython nbconvert --version
> 2.2.0
>
>
> The output of ‘iptest’ is available at
> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/temp/nbconvert-html-issue/iptest.log
>
>
> Can anybody else see this problem? Any ideas what I am missing?
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Hans
>
>
>
>
>
>
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