I am often using the bookmarklet called "Link" from here: normalhuman.github.io/stackmarklets github.com/normalhuman/normalhuman.github.io/blob/master/…

Does somebody know why on questions with MathJax I get stuff like How to show that det(AB)=det(A)det(B)\det(AB) =\det(A) \det(B)? rather than How to show that $\det(AB) =\det(A) \det(B)$?

I remember that there was similar problem with the Request Generator:

Which is why I hoped you might have a suggestion about this @Makyen.

I have to admit that I do not know enough about javascript to be able to figure this out myself.

And sorry for bothering you with this - but it's possible that for you something like this might be trivial, so I have decided to ask.

The branch will either be removed in a couple of weeks, or I may choose to reuse it (letting the old beta version links work) for additional significant changes I'm thinking of working on in the near future where it's a good idea to get the additional testing from a beta version.

@MartinSleziak np. I'm happy to help. Getting this to work correctly will be non-trivial. The bookmarklet is almost certainly grabbing the title from the page. Prior to MathJax running, the title exists in the page in the normal location for SE. Once MathJax has run, the actual title text exists nowhere in the page. The bookmarklet will need to get the title using AJAX. It can do so from either the SE API (probably best), or from the SE-private realtime endpoint.

I see this in the bookmarklet - which seems to be the source of the title: t=document.title.split('-')[0].trim();

Re: Getting this to work correctly will be non-trivial. Not the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for looking into it.

Sorry, I'll have to leave now. See you later!

@MartinSleziak Hmmm... document.title might be a reasonable place to get the title on question pages. However, I've seen some scripts that adjust the title, so I usually don't rely on it.

However, that code won't get the title, unless something else has adjusted it, or it happens to be a title that has the most popular tag in the actual title. document.title is normally [main tag] - [title] - [SE site], but if the title contains the main tag, then it's [title] - [SE site], or at least that's the way it was the last time I surveyed it. That code will get the first part separated by "-", Thus, either the main tag or title, depending on the page.

I'll take a better look at it a bit later. I'm trying to catch up on some other things at the moment.

Thanks a lot!

There is certainly no hurry. (And the script is usable as it is - I just need a few more clicks - after clicking edit and selecting the title it works fine.)

As I've said, I asked mainly because I saw similar problem in the request generator. So I thought that there is at least a small chance that the same solution might work here too. (As I see, I was probably wrong about that.)