Math in chat: troubleshooting?

Are there special steps require to enable math in chat? On my instance (Discourse 3.1, with

which includes the chat+math support mentioned in this post)

math works fine in normal topics, but in chat, it does not appear to work. Am I missing a step? Anything I could do to troubleshoot?

Thanks!

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Iā€™ve done a little bit of digging. It seems that, at this point in the code:

it is assumed that the elements to be put through MathJax have a math CSS class. But a test chat message (Iā€™m using Test $\alpha$ math?) does not seem to have any such elements when the DOM elements are run through the registered decorateChatMessage callback.

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Good catch thanks. This should be fixed by:

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