MathJax newline doesn’t seem to work

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Hello,

When writing math in Markdown documents, I noticed that MathJax newline doesn’t work. For example, when I type $$x\\=y$, I expect a line break just before the equal sign because I wrote \\ there. I tried the same in MacDown, another Markdown editor with MathJax support, and the line break was rendered as expected.

Is this a bug in DEVONthink? Thank you in advance.

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Is this definitely a MathJax feature? E.g. it doesn’t work over there either:

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I’m not familiar enough to tell. The thread Jim linked to didn’t seem to suggest otherwise, FWIW.

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Note MacDown doesn’t use MultiMarkdown. I’m not at my Mac this minute but I’m betting MultiMarkdown Composer doesn’t display the break either.

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Either way, is it possible to insert line breaks in MathJax when editing Markdown documents in DEVONthink?

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This works for me:

$$\begin{eqnarray} 
x & = & 4\\
y & = & x^2 \\
  & = & 16
\end{eqnarray}$$
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Thank you for helping out a MathJax noob! It works for me too.

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Thanks for jumping in with this solution. It’s appreciated!

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