# Markdown parses LaTeX math symbols as its formatting syntax in notebook #1275

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opened this Issue Jan 16, 2012 · 4 comments

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### joonro commented Jan 16, 2012

 In notebook markdown cells in notebook, markdown's formatting syntax conflicts with LaTeX math symbols and one needs additional escaping to avoid this. A couple of examples: ( ) and [ ] for inline and line math environments do not work; need to escape :  and  The following does not work, as some part becomes italic: $$\underline{x}_{1} x_{2}$$ It works after escaping the first _: $$\underline{x}\_{1} x_{2}$$ I found a discussion about this: http://doswa.com/2011/07/20/mathjax-in-markdown.html

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### mwiebe commented Feb 26, 2012

 I'm not sure if this needs a new ticket or not, but here's an example that breaks: Given $\mathbf{x}_i$, we must solve for $\mathbf{x}_{i+1}$.  Markdown makes the middle part italic, completely screwing up the desired math.
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### Carreau commented Nov 22, 2012

 Looked fixed to me. Waiting for a confirmation and I will close.
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### ahmadia commented Nov 23, 2012

 The Markdown+MathJax issues were addressed in #2349 and #2517. We now use $,$ and \$$,\$$ to delimit inlineMath $$,$$ and \$,\$ to delimit displayMath We currently do not support \( or \[ style delimiters. Additionally, you can can directly make \begin and \end calls without delimiters to the following environments through MathJaX processEnvironments: align align* alignat alignat* aligned alignedat array Bmatrix bmatrix cases eqnarray eqnarray* equation equation* gather gather* gathered matrix multline multline* pmatrix smallmatrix split subarray Vmatrix vmatrix 
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### Carreau commented Nov 23, 2012

 Thank for the recap' . Closing.

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