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In at least one questions ( How to compute molecular formula?) there is broken formatting, but only in the posted form. The preview view (if one were to try and edit it) shows what I believe is the correct output.

Text for the line in question:

WCl$_{6}$, WCl$_{14}$, WCl$_{18}$, and WCl$_{21}$.

How it is displayed on the site:

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How it is previewed:

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This appears to be a bug.

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  • $\begingroup$ Please test stuff here: meta.chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/112/22 $\endgroup$
    – ManishEarth
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 0:32
  • $\begingroup$ Does it show up as a bug for you as well? $\endgroup$
    – soandos
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 1:01
  • $\begingroup$ Yep.. Found other strange stuff as well. I'll investigate later. $\endgroup$
    – ManishEarth
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 1:03
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    $\begingroup$ chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4595462#4595462 $\endgroup$
    – ManishEarth
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 13:09
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    $\begingroup$ This definitely looks like the difference between the preview and server back-end code. See this reply for more details about the code changes. I'm wondering if the fix was only applied to the math.stackexchange.com site? $\endgroup$
    – Davide Cervone
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 13:18
  • $\begingroup$ @DavideCervone: Fortunately, the SE mods hang around beta sites, so we may not have to wait too long for an answer. $\endgroup$
    – ManishEarth
    Commented May 15, 2012 at 1:13
  • $\begingroup$ Has anyone tested this on any other SE sites? So far as I know, the fix @Manis links to wasn't specific to Math.SE. $\endgroup$
    – Shog9
    Commented May 15, 2012 at 13:37

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MathJax developer Davide Cervone has created an improved parser for better separation of $\LaTeX$ and Markdown (thanks a lot!). We've tested it on math.se for a while, and since it has been working great, I have now enabled it everywhere. The bug you found is one of the issues that this new parser solves, so this shouldn't happen again.

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