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@bthalpin@mastodon.social
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.

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 23:48:22

Oh FFS! #Brightspace is fucking up my #Julialang teaching materials for tomorrow by being too clever.
It can interpret latex code and show formula. Brilliant.
It just can't not do it, so my regular expression example of
r"\([0-9] \)") is showing up as below, a…

Code example r"[0-9]+" where the [0-9]+ is in Latex format, Computer Modern Roman font, instead of the r"\([0-9]+\)" required.