This is my entire post from another thread (topic). I included dollar signs and they showed up in the preview window but disappeared when I saved/posted. Anybody know why?
When I was a kid, gold was 35/oz. Seriously. Of course, gasoline was .20/gal. Minimum wage was $1.10. Gold mining was especially dangerous because of the dinosaurs.
ETA: I put dollar signs in front of the “35” and the “.20” --why did the bot remove them?? The dollar signs SHOW UP in the preview window, but disappear when I save.
ETA #2 test: 35 per ounce, .20 per gallon
ETA #3: I put dollar signs in ETA #2 – I thought maybe the bot didn’t like the slash. But the dollar sign was okay in “$1.10” What’s up with that?
Okay. Interesting. But in my last post, the dollar signs came out okay… I’ll keep the backslash thing in mind… or maybe just write out “dollars and cents.”
Just for my own information, should I have known what you meant by
“Escaped with backslashes”? without asking for clarification?
The MathJax plugin for Discourse allows you to insert mathematical formulas.
Inline formulas are marked with a $ at the beginning and the end.
My guess is that MathJax is disabled on the SDMB, but it’s still scanning for the pair of $ signs on a line. It’s removing the $ signs, but not processing what is between them as a formula.
(I had to escape the two $ signs on the line above, or they wouldn’t display.)
by itself.
Text with in the middle.
Text with it at the end .
at the beginning and again at the end $.
Shows as normal in the preview box; and no I’m not using any escape slashes.
aha! I was beginning to think that whatever it was doesn’t affect me at all, but there it is. I think others can figure out where the dollar sign originally was in the above.
But I note that I didn’t have it show up at all when I used it with a dollar amount in multiple different arrangements – see post above, all of those $25’s.
