Mathjax seems to be broken in v2.9.0.beta5. We would expect \frac{1}{2} to render when it’s enabled, but it’s not currently working. I’ll point additional admins for our instance to this post. We plan on updating to beta6 next week.

Checking more in depth, I figured out that the javascript file MathJax.2.7.5.js that tries to be loaded is located under /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-math/public/mathjax/MathJax.2.7.5.js, while it looks like it tries to load it from a different location, see pic: [image] Version: 2.9.0.b…

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You are perfectly right. Indeed, I’ve discovered that at precompiling assets time, among many other things, the following symlinks are created under the public/plugins folders: /var/www/discourse$ ls -al public/plugins/ ... lrwxrwxrwx. 1 discourse root 52 Jul 2 09:17 discourse-calendar -> /var/www…

MathJax seems broken in v2.9.0.beta5

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) July 1, 2022, 9:50pm 3

I’m unable to repro on Discourse af3262d and plugin version bcaccbd. I’m not sure what you mean with the different location?

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MathJax seems broken in v2.9.0.beta5

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