Particular equation not rendering (notebook)

[CamDavidsonPilon]

Hi, I'm trying to understand why the following equation won't render in a ipython notebook:

\begin{equation}
p(\theta | {\bf X}) \propto \underbrace{p({\bf X} | \theta)}_{{\rm likelihood}} \cdot \underbrace{        p(\theta) }_{{\rm prior}} 
\end{equation}

The Latex is correct, and it renders correctly on other mathjax sites. Is it some odd format that the notebook refuses?

I believe it may be the two \underbraces that are causing it, as removing one allows rendering.

[juhasch]

Your Latex code works for me in a code cell as well as in markdown.

Markdown:

$$p(\theta | {\bf X}) \propto \underbrace{p({\bf X} | \theta)}_{{\rm likelihood}}  \cdot \underbrace{ p(\theta) }_{{\rm prior}} $$

from IPython.display import display, Math, Latex
a=r"""
\begin{equation}
p(\theta | {\bf X}) \propto \underbrace{p({\bf X} | \theta)}_{{\rm likelihood}} \cdot \underbrace{ p(\theta) }_{{\rm prior}} 
\end{equation}
"""
display(Math(a))

How exactly do you enter your equation ìn the notebook ?

[CamDavidsonPilon]

I entered it exactly as I have is posted above. I cp'ed your first code, and that failed, but your second code piece worked. I am using ipython 0.13 btw

[ccordoba12]

I think this was fixed in PR #2349, which is only present in master, not in 0.13.

[CamDavidsonPilon]

Yup, that's it. I'm happy to close this issue. Thanks @ccordoba12 and @juhasch