symbol on top of other symbol (hat, tilde, vec) puts it in superscript position

[mbakker7]

The functions $\hat{x}$, $\tilde{x}$, $\vec{x}$ put the hat, tilde and vector in the superscript position rather than on top in a markdown cell. I also noticed this behavior on, for example, http://data-blog.udacity.com/posts/2016/10/latex-primer/

Strangely enough $\widehat{h}$ does work and puts a (wide) hat on top of x. So why doesn't $\hat{x}$ do that?

Is this a mathjax limitation (which would be odd), bug (I think so), something that can be easily fixed (I hope so).

Jupyter 5.0.0, Python 3.6, Safari 11.0.1

Thanks, Mark

[biaojiang]

I met this problem as well when rendering equations using Sphinx. However, only the web file has this problem, after having compiled it to .pdf file, it is OK.

So, I think it is the Mathjax bug, you can report it to Mathjax.

[mbakker7]

Are you using Safari? A colleague couldn't duplicate it on a PC (Chrome I think, but not sure).

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[biaojiang]

Yes, I use Safari. I just tested it on PC that IE and Chrome don't have this problem.

[mbakker7]

Seems to be a mathjax problem on Safari. Reported the bug to mathjax:

mathjax/MathJax#1913

[JesseBausell]

You can try '$~{x}$' and '$^{x}$' for tilde and hat....

[JesseBausell]

You can try '$~{x}$' and '$^{x}$' for tilde and hat....

[mbakker7]

Problem has been solved in mathjax. $\hat{a}$ works as expected, $~{a}$ doesn't work.