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Messing up Math formulas
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Description

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.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz50938

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:57 AM
bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
bzimport set Reference to bz50938.

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.

cbm.wikipedia wrote:

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 ***