I think that some basic math formatting that used to work no longer is on my site. For example, Greek characters \\alpha, \\Alpha, \\beta, \\Beta, \\delta, \\Delta, \\epsilon. I tried enabling asciimath and using percent signs rather than dollar signs, but that just produces something differently wr…

You can change the Default composition mode site setting to markdown. And then if you are not using the starter plan, you can use the CSS from the post I linked in a theme component to hide the toggle in the composer. ( Customizing themes without an Edit code button ) [image] How can i set disable…

These work: For example, Greek characters $\alpha, \beta, \delta, \Delta, \epsilon$. For example, Greek characters \alpha, \beta, \delta, \Delta, \epsilon. Looks like there are not upper case Alpha or Beta, though.

[image] pfaffman: Looks like there are not upper case Alpha or Beta, though. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/discussions/tips/847926-greek-alphabet-and-latex-commands-not-a-question [17549330434871964285135457428550]

Thanks but even the lower-case ones are not currently working for me, though they used to. I’m including a screenshot of my math plugin settings below, along with a screenshot of what I put in a post and how it appears when posted… FWIW I’ve tried some other settings for the plugin, but nothing has …

It worked for me, but RTE doesn’t show as WYSIWYG, until that post is sended. Markdown shows right in preview.

Does it work when you use the markdown editor instead of the rich text editor? I think @mcmcclur mentioned that math and the new rich text editor currently don’t work well together. [image] How can i set disable Markdown & Default to Rich Text used this to enforce the default Markdown editor, s…

Not sure what I did wrong before (oh, they don’t have upper case for \Alpha or \Beta since “A” and “B” work), but these all seem to be working here, copied from your link with a bit of keyboard macro magic. ALPHA: A, \alpha BETA: B, \beta GAMMA: \Gamma, \gamma…

Thanks so much everyone. It seems like the default editor was changed, which had the side effect of breaking mathjax. I no longer get the preview pane, I guess because the main pane is now supposed to be WYSIWYG, which is not something I actually want. Sadly, I don’t understand how to make this n…

[image] lspector: Is there a straightforward way for me to do this? @moin linked to it in the post before mine.

I’m trying to do this but it’s not working. I created a new component with the code: .composer-toggle-switch { display: none; } I don’t know if I need to do something else to make it active, but after doing this I still get the WYSIWYG editor, I don’t see anything to toggle that off (what woul…

[image] lspector: I created a new component with the code: .composer-toggle-switch { display: none; } Assuming that you put that in the correct place and enabled the component, that should hide the switch that allows you to change back and forth from the rich editor to the Markdown edito…

Math mode hard to use with rich text editor

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mcmcclur (Mark McClure) August 11, 2025, 9:37pm 15

Yes, that’s exactly correct. I described here why that matters to me but it’s arguably more natural to let the user decide in most cases.

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Math mode hard to use with rich text editor

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