Experiencing a problem in an <ol> list

David Arnold

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Jan 24, 2016, 11:25:27 PM1/24/16

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<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>MathJax TeX Test Page</title>

MathJax.Hub.Config({tex2jax: {inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\$','\$']]}});

</script>

src="https://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_CHTML">

</script>

</head>

<body>

<li><strong>Assignment #5 (Due: Monday, February 1)</strong>

<ul>

<li>Page 122, perform each of the following tasks for exercises #7 and 8:

<ol>

<li>Using pencil and paper, write the inequalities in the form $L-\epsilon<2$</li>

<li>Using pencil and paper, write the inequalities in the form $L-\epsilon<f(x)$</li>

</ol></li>

</ul></li>

</body>

</html>

This code gives me this picture.

What is happening when I replace 2 with f(x)?

Murray

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Jan 25, 2016, 2:21:33 AM1/25/16

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Hello David

Your issue will be solved if you put a space between your < and the "f" of f(x) so it's $L-\epsilon< f(x)$

MathJax handled the first one OK because the less than sign was followed by a number. But in the second case, there is uncertainty about whether you want "less than" or the beginning of a HTML tag <f> ....

See under the heading "TeX and LaTeX in HTML documents" on the page http://mathjax.readthedocs.org/en/v2.6-latest/tex.html

regards

Murray

David Farmer

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Jan 25, 2016, 6:23:59 AM1/25/16

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The "less than" sign is dangerous because it looks like the
start of an HTML tag. Put a space after the "<" in all cases,
and it will work fine. (In the case of "less than 2", your browser
knows it isn't a tag because tag names start with letters.
"Less than f" looks like the start of an "f" tag.)

Or use the macros \lt and \gt instead of < and >. Those macros
are included with MathJax.

Regards,

David

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