LaTeX maths ($…$ or $$…$$) renders as literal dollar signs
What you are seeing
Your LaTeX maths, written as $…$ or $$…$$, shows up as literal dollar signs and plain text.
#Why it happens
Markdown has no maths or LaTeX support, so the dollar signs are treated as ordinary text.
#What to do
Use a tikz diagram fence to typeset maths. That is a fenced code block with the language set to tikz.
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
Large-document scroll mode | 500,000 characters | Past this, the document shows "⚠️ Large content detected. Rendering in scrollable mode." and sits in a scrolling box 1,200 pixels high instead of showing inline. |
#A few things that catch people out
The link icon in the bordered header never appears.
There is no maths or LaTeX support anywhere in Markdown.
#Related
Mermaid diagram works in mermaid.js elsewhere but fails or looks different here
Diagrams are rendered server-side by Kroki, not by the browser mermaid library, so syntax
We configured a self-hosted diagram renderer but markdown diagrams still go through Capable
The self-hosted renderer path is currently disabled by a hard kill switch.
Everything else
The rest of this family.
Found it? Good.
