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What's New in MathJax v2.4

MathJax v2.4 is primarily a bug fix release. Over 80 display bugs, line-breaking problems, and interface issues have been resolved; for a detailed listing please check the release milestone <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues?milestone=2&state=closed>__. The following are some of the highlights.

Security

  • #256 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/256>__ Enable Content Security Policy compatibility.

Interface

  • #240 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/240>__ prevent two identical uses of \tag to cause identical element id.
  • #348 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/348>__ fix Show Math as window crashing in IE8.
  • #559 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/559>__ remove user cookie configuration.
  • #821 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/821>__ resolve cookie-related error in sandboxed iframes on Chrome.
  • #623 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/623>__ fix localization on IE6--8.
  • #685 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/685>__ fix MathMenu and MathZoom extensions loading when showMathMenu set to false.
  • #734 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/734>__ compress menu PNGs.
  • #814 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/814>__ add TeX/Asciimath as annotation-xml to MathML output.

Line-breaking

  • #617 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/617>__ add linebreaking support for mmultiscript elements.
  • #687 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/687>__ fix forced line breaking aligning badly.
  • #707 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/707>__ fix ignored line breaks between two mtext elements.

HTML-CSS/SVG/nativeMML display

  • #387 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/387>__ fix missing styling for merror in SVG output.
  • #391 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/391>__ fix linebreaking within fractions in SVG output.
  • #423 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/423>, #460 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/460>, #749 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/749>, #824 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/824> Zoom improvements: fix zoom box overflow in mobile Safari, fix zoom box for widths in px, fix zoom box overlay in Chrome.
  • #470 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/470>__ fix AMScd rendering in native MathML output.
  • #473 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/473>__ override text-ident of enclosing paragraph.
  • #476 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/476>__ improve big /Downarrows.
  • #580 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/580>__ prevent CSS from overriding MathJax's em/ex detection.
  • #619 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/619>__ fix: vertical stretching arrows in table cells can cause extra space between rows.
  • #699 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/699>__ fix table column spacing in NativeMathML output on Firefox.
  • #701 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/701>__ fix clipping of stretched delimiters in HTML-CSS output.
  • #703 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/703>__ fix math axis not scaled in script sizes.
  • #715 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/715>__ fix hat ^ too large with local STIX fonts in HTML-CSS.
  • #744 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/744>__ improve root symbol rendering in ever-changing but always buggy Chrome.
  • #770 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/770>__ add support for dotted borders to SVG output.
  • #820 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/820>__ fix integral overlapping with superscript using STIX fonts.
  • #813 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/813>__ remove some redundant fixes for Native MML on Firefox 29+.

TeX emulation

  • #367 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/376>__ prevent \mmltoken from creating annotation elements.
  • #377 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/377>__ improve &nbsp; handling.
  • #389 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/389>__ fix operating spacing in \split and \multiline environments.
  • #477 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/477>, #459 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/459> add \textsf and \texttt macros and enable mtextInheritFont for them.
  • #547 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/547>__ fix misalignment in nested fractions in HTML-CSS and SVG output.
  • #624 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/624>__ fix AMScd on IE6--7.
  • #632 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/632>__ fix \Big not accepting delimiters in braces
  • #667 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/667>__ fix loop in bbox.
  • #691 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/691>__ enable multiple \label in multiline environments like align, eqnarray, and gather.
  • #719 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/719>__ empty array lines should get correct height.
  • #739 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/739>__ fix \operatorname* and \DeclareMathOperator*.
  • #746 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/746>__ fix spacing for \left ... \right.
  • #793 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/793>__ allow unmatched groups in \begin \end` substitutions.
  • #794 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/794>__ fix spacing for \bmod.

Asciimath

  • #353 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/353>__ add option for TeX-like \phi and \varphii behavior.
  • #743 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/743>__ add mmlSpacing option and set to true.
  • #747 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/747>__ fix processing error with invisible grouping.

MathML Handling

  • #328 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/328>__ remove _moz-*-attributes and improve MathML processing in Firefox.
  • #460 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/469>__ fix default value of mo@symmetric.
  • #478 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/478>__ make mfenced element equivalent to its expanded form
  • #561 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/561>__ implement menclose notation phaseorangle.
  • #578 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/578>__ fix quote attributes for ms elements.
  • #614 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/614>__ handle nested math elements better.
  • #684 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/684>__ fix handling of double primes in superscripts.
  • #691 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/696>, #692 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/692>, update Content MathML extension: fix IE11, plus with leading negative number.
  • #763 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/763>__ fix mglyph elements rendering too small.

Fonts

  • #501 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/501>__ add workaround for broken Fedora STIX fonts configuration.
  • #517 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/517>__ reset min/max width for MathJax font test.
  • #576 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/576>__ improve font matching.
  • #615 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/615>__ check validity of font names.
  • #681 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/681>__ fix MathJax font test breaking responsive layout.
  • #711 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/711>__ detect new webfonts when locally installed.
  • #697 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/697>__ fix bold-italic for new webfonts.

Localization

  • #753 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/753>__ update locales from translatewiki.net; add Vietnamese, Asturia, Polish, Catalan, Czech, Kannada locales.
  • #777 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/777>__ fix menu orientation for RTL languages.

Misc.

  • #586 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/586>__ add all input processors to default.js.
  • #658 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/658>__ fix IE 11 recognized as Firefox.
  • #730 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/730>__ ignore rendering targets that have been removed from document.
  • #735 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/735>__ work around webfont bug in Chrome 32+.
  • #738 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/738>__ improve workaround for fixed position bug in old IE versions.
  • #737 <https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/737>__ add third-party path variable (for centralized custom extension hosting).