Bounded \bbox Breaking Bad

Conversation started Mar 24, 2017 at 2:25.

pentavalentcarbon

Mar 24, 2017 02:25

@hBy2Py uhhhh.........?!

hBy2Py

That is amazing. :-)

Martin - マーチン

Haha that's awesome

hBy2Py

Renders fine here, Win7 Chrome

pentavalentcarbon

I don't like the internet very much

this is Firefox Nightly on a Mac

Chrome is fine, must be a Firefox problem

oh my this whole meta post is totally broken...

hBy2Py

That post would probably be a good MathJax stress test.

pentavalentcarbon

Mar 24, 2017 02:30

so it starts getting messed up after this and just propagates downward:

> Much the same effect can be achieved with the \bbox command. As with \bbox, the output is sometimes ill-behaved, especially when adding borders:

Martin - マーチン

@pentavalentcarbon as far as I can see it's fine in the app

hBy2Py

@pentavalentcarbon This all would maybe be good to edit into the posts?

pentavalentcarbon

I am too lazy to quit Firefox Nightly and try Firefox but it works fine in an ancient Safari

Martin - マーチン

Not sure if that would be overshooting it, Brian, there are oh so many browser options out there, it's almost impossible to include all... And it might change quickly

hBy2Py

<nod>

And, oh wow, it is so bad on regular Firefox here.

Definitely is the bordered \bbox that's doing it.

Martin - マーチン

Mar 24, 2017 02:34

There should be - maybe - a disclaimer about MathJax in general...

pentavalentcarbon

I thought it would be the Nightly doing it but you're right

hBy2Py

Example: