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2025-10-01 20:25:13

I upload HTML files to #Brightspace to have more control over my content (writing it in #Emacs #orgmode). It mostly works, but yesterday I discovered BS was corrupting my code examples by applying Mat…

Disabling MathJax in Brightspace
The night before an early class, I discovered that Brightspace was cheating on me. I use HTML files generated outside BS for lab instructions, and normally BS presents them correctly. However, BS is also MathJax capable, i.e., if it sees LaTeX-style maths expressions, it displays them as maths. So if it sees \(\sqrt{2}\) it will present it as the square-root of two, properly typeset. The catch is that BS is indiscriminate about where it sees the \( and \) pairs.