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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Strange latex symbol behavior on html export
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:05:06 +0200
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To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:

> Consider this markup:
>
> ------------
> * MATHEMATICS AUXILIARY
>
> ** deriving sines and cosines
>
> #+caption: Right triangle with two $\pi\big/4$ angles.
> [[file:images/45-45-triangle.png]]
>
> $\big/$
> ------------
>
> If I remove the second $\big/$, the first latex, $\pi\big/4$, in the
> caption will not properly render on export to html. Include it and both
> render just fine. Without the second, the first looks like this:
>
> Figure 1: Right triangle with two \(\pi\big/4\) angles.
>
> Is this a bug?

If you use

  #+options: tex:dvipng

the symbol in the caption is correctly rendered. It may be a bug in Mathjax.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou