I am under the impression that you should use \\ for newlines with mathjax, however I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong here?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script id="MathJax-script" async src="@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p><span class="math display">\[
1 x x^2 \\
1 y y^2 \\
1 z z^2 \\
\]</span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>I am under the impression that you should use \\ for newlines with mathjax, however I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong here?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script id="MathJax-script" async src="https://cdn.jsdelivr/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p><span class="math display">\[
1 x x^2 \\
1 y y^2 \\
1 z z^2 \\
\]</span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>I expect to see 3 lines, but I get this:
Other stackoverflow posts claim that \\ should work, eg: https://math.meta.stackexchange./questions/11720/new-line-within-mathjax
- 3 This is a regression in v3 github./mathjax/MathJax/issues/2312 – Peter Krautzberger Commented Jun 26, 2020 at 5:28
4 Answers
Reset to default 7Apparently \\ is not implemented (yet) in version 3, but you can use \displaylines instead:
\displaylines{ first line \\ second line }
As pointed out the in the above ment, this doesn't work in mathjax 3.0.
As a work around, I found the following markdown correctly transforms to HTML with pandoc:
you can use this:
\begin{equation}
\displaylines{I = \int \rho R^{2} dV \\ Y = 1}
\end{equation}
or alternatively an align block, e.g:
$$
\begin{alignat}{2}
I & = \int \rho R^{2} dV & + P \\
Y & = 1 & + x
\end{alignat}
$$
with: pandoc --from=markdown --to=html5 --mathjax="https://cdn.jsdelivr/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js" -s file.md -o file.html
@stevenvh solution worked, but I needed them aligned to the left. To do this I found
\begin{align}
& ...expression... \\
& ...expression... \\
\end{align}
to be working.
You should use HTML to break lines as MathJax only handles math mode and does not process the backslashes:
<p>
<span class="math display">
\(1 x x^2 \)</br>
\(1 y y^2 \)</br>
\(1 z z ^2 \)</br>
</span>
</p>