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I'm using the latest firefox 26.0 in PClinux and the MathJax doesn't render which makes it very difficult to read the edits. Using Google Chrome v31 I get the same result.

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But both work fine when I read posted messages or in edit mode

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Any ideas?

p.s. I have no addon that prevents javascripts

Update: I have checked the edits I have approved that included MathJax and it seems that some do get rendered and some don't.

These get rendered:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30652

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https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30554

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But these do not:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30553
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/29928
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/25219

So there seems to be something that triggers this behaviour.

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    \$\begingroup\$ I posted a feature request for this on Meta.SO a while back but unfortunately haven't heard anything: LaTeX rendering for suggested edit queue \$\endgroup\$ – PeterJ Jan 8 '14 at 10:50
  • \$\begingroup\$ @PeterJ I have updated the message and added examples of edits that do render and others that don't (in the same PC) \$\endgroup\$ – alexan_e Jan 8 '14 at 11:41
  • \$\begingroup\$ That's interesting, in fact I'd noticed one of those edits I'd approved as well rendered it and thought it must have been changed, but when it went back to not working again thought I must have been dreaming and didn't think to check the diff again. \$\endgroup\$ – PeterJ Jan 8 '14 at 11:50
  • \$\begingroup\$ @PeterJ It seems that when Mathjacks is on a block at the end of the post it gets rendered, when it is between text it does not (?) \$\endgroup\$ – alexan_e Jan 8 '14 at 12:05
  • \$\begingroup\$ Could be a complication, I'm about to head off but had a quick look on Math.SE and they have the same problem and it looked like there might be a few things that come into play. If you don't get any responses much here in the next day you could probably change the tags to bug and mathjax - I believe SE developers get some sort of list of questions tagged bug. \$\endgroup\$ – PeterJ Jan 8 '14 at 12:20
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MathJax does not process any math that contains HTML tags. The red and green change indicators are produced by inserting tags that include styling for the colors, and so if a change starts or ends within the mathematics, MathJax won't typeset it. The examples that you give showing un-typeset math all have changes that start and end within the math. The examples that are typeset don't.

I don't think it would be practical to have mathematics that includes changes be typeset while still being able to indicate the changes. I think seeing the changes to the TeX code is probably the right thing in these cases. And I'm pretty sure the SE maintainers aren't going to change this.

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I have recently got enough rep to "Review" edits.

I have seen at least one where the 'math' remained Latex-like stuff (I assume MathJax, as mentioned in the question title).

With enough complexity in the math, I found it too hard to see that the question had not been changed in some key way. I tried "rendered output" and "markdown", but they didn't seem to help. They were both 'broken'.

I can appreciate the difficulty of combining HTML and other markdown in the 'diff' view.

However, my problem seems soluble.

I would like a way to see the normally rendered view. No colour highlighting. No markdown. Only the view that should be rendered for a normal user.

Is their a way to see that view? Or, is there a reason this can't be raised as a change request? Or am I missing something?

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Almost two years later and this is still a problem. The lack of rendering even makes it difficult to see if the equation has been corrupted. I feel that more "diligent" users will simply skip the edit, whereas others might approve a bad edit assuming that it is good.

The following is the first edit of this answer.

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Did the editor transpose two variables? I can't tell, either.

I have found that I can click the "Improve Edit" button and see the rendered MathJax, but I no longer have a side-by-side comparison.

Anyway, I like @gbulmer 's solution. Strip the color formatting markdown out of MathJaX equations, and all manner of things will be well :)

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