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. The following are some of the highlights.

Security¶

#256 Enable Content Security Policy compatibility.

Interface¶

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

Line-breaking¶

#617 add linebreaking support for mmultiscript elements.
#687 fix forced line breaking aligning badly.
#707 fix ignored line breaks between two mtext elements.

HTML-CSS/SVG/nativeMML display¶

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

TeX emulation¶

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

Asciimath¶

#353 add option for TeX-like \phi and \varphii behavior.
#743 add mmlSpacing option and set to true.
#747 fix processing error with invisible grouping.

MathML Handling¶

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

Fonts¶

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

Localization¶

#753 update locales from translatewiki.net; add Vietnamese, Asturia, Polish, Catalan, Czech, Kannada locales.
#777 fix menu orientation for RTL languages.

Misc.¶

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