I noticed equations with "<"'s weren't displaying correctly in HTML export using mathjax. The attached patch fixes this by html-encoding latex fragments for mathjax HTML export. I imagine this change would be generally useful and could be applied to master.
Best, Eric
>From 8c4efca17f2a6fbc836c5a8b6b0f628b6c9fff33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:38:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] html-encode text in mathjax latex fragments * lisp/ox-html.el (org-html-format-latex): Html-encode text in mathjax latex fragments. --- lisp/ox-html.el | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/ox-html.el b/lisp/ox-html.el index df392a9..03037f5 100644 --- a/lisp/ox-html.el +++ b/lisp/ox-html.el @@ -2610,7 +2610,8 @@ a symbol among `mathjax', `dvipng', `imagemagick', `verbatim' nil and t. See `org-html-with-latex' for more information. INFO is a plist containing export properties." (let ((cache-relpath "") (cache-dir "")) - (unless (eq processing-type 'mathjax) + (if (eq processing-type 'mathjax) + (setq latex-frag (org-html-encode-plain-text latex-frag)) (let ((bfn (or (buffer-file-name) (make-temp-name (expand-file-name "latex" temporary-file-directory)))) -- 2.0.0
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