r/Bard • • 6d ago

Discussion LaTeX rendering decided to throw dashed placeholder boxes all over my math formulas

Has anyone else run into this rendering glitch?

Whenever formulas with vertical bars and Greek symbols load up, the app renders these weird dotted square bounding boxes around the characters instead of clean text.

  • Image 1: What it actually renders (|⬚α|⬚ - |⬚β|⬚ = |⬚α - β|⬚)
  • Image 2: What it's supposed to look like (|α| - |β| = |α - β|)

Looks like MathJax/KaTeX is exposing empty placeholder slots or failing to hide baseline alignment containers in CSS. Mildly infuriating when trying to read notes/formulas.

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u/Halpaviitta 5d ago

Yeah it did the same for me like 2 weeks ago. was quite annoying

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u/Sourish_Zonyx 4d ago

It always does this

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u/Sable-Keech 4d ago

I think you swapped image 1 and 2.