So in Jekyll and Markdown, I can't type $ or its HTML equivalent code, and not \$ nor $\$$. How should I type the dollar sign?
4 Answers
To prevent MathJax from using the dollar sign as a delimiter, you can put it in a span, like so:
<span>$</span>
Alternatively, you can enable processEscapes and then you can use the backslash escape \$ for the dollar sign.
3 Comments
agent18
what is processEscapes? please!
webbertiger
you can add it to the html file <script></script> section
Adrian McCarthy
The span trick isn't working for me--the end tag is interpreted as text in math mode. :-(
Enable processEscapes:
MathJax.Hub.Config({
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']],
processEscapes: true
}
});
Then you can simply use \$ to get a plain $.
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Alex Johnson
If using Jekyll, you will need to escape the \\, too, so \\$ will produce a plain
$.I disable dollar signs completely: my settings (in a script tag) are:
MathJax = {
tex: {
inlineMath: [['\\\\(', '\\\\)']],
displayMath: [['\\\\[', '\\\\]']]
},
svg: {
fontCache: 'global'
}
};
so that I have to use \(...\) or \[...\] rather than $x$ and $$y$$.
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John Allsup
View the source of w.allsup.co/sandbox/MathJax as an example -- note that dollar signs appear as is, but \(...\) and \[...\] are handled by MathJax. (That site is my personal wiki that I use as a note-taking system ala Obsidian.)
I used mathjax's dollar symbol in that paragraph. It works.
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