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Bug 50938 - Messing up Math formulas
Messing up Math formulas
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50291
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
General (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low normal
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Assigned To: James Forrester
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Reported: 2013-07-08 13:15 UTC by Maggie Dennis
Modified: 2013-07-12 01:32 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Maggie Dennis 2013-07-08 13:15:40 UTC
Several concerns noted about VisualEditor messing with math formulas when (evidently) the user was not attempting to edit the formula at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raising_and_lowering_indices&curid=11325244&diff=563062676&oldid=560490441

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regression_analysis&curid=826997&diff=563265603&oldid=561802206

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bipartite_double_cover&curid=21241712&diff=563327691&oldid=554035797

I'm not sure if this is related to an existing bug or a different kind of thing.
Comment 1 Richard Morris 2013-07-08 13:34:53 UTC
The changes don't actually change the visual output. Just the way italics (used to mark variables) and superscript and subscript tags interact. So it might change ''e''<sup>''x''</sup> to ''e<sup>x</sup>'' you could say the former is better semantically. Other cases will split a complex superscript into two separate subscripts  ''K''<sub>''n'',''n''</sub> into ''K<sub>n</sub>''<sub>,''n''</sub>, visually the same but worse semantically.

Marking as low priority as no visible change.
Comment 2 CBM 2013-07-12 01:32:37 UTC
This is a duplicate of bug 50291. It is a round tripping error in VisualEditor.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50291 ***

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