← Session 20 — Website: math/formula rendering review
thinking (2053 chars)
Confirmed: this passage (D-004 lines 9–18) is **flush-left prose** — no two-space indents, no colon lead-ins before display lines. It's dense inline Unicode math written as running text. So:
1. It will NOT get display-block treatment (correctly — it's not display-formatted in the source).
2. On the website it renders as a paragraph of text with Unicode math glyphs — which is what the user sees and finds "not formatted".
To answer the user's question: "Does text in the derivation files look like this?" — YES, exactly like this. This is the raw source style of the archive: Unicode math inline in prose. My typography pass improves glyph rendering (font fallback), and display-formats the subset of lines that use the indent convention, but dense passages like this one stay as running text — because that's what they are in the source.
The only way to make THIS kind of text look like typeset math is the full LaTeX conversion route (research-side, option 2 from my earlier list). There's no safe display-layer heuristic that can turn `b := (1/L)∫ϕ⁴ (0 < b ≤ a ≤ 1); Φ := ϕ²̂;` into TeX-quality rendering — auto-converting Unicode→MathJax inline would require parsing ambiguous Unicode (e.g., `ϕ²̂` = \widehat{\phi^2}? or (\hat{ϕ})²? semantically it's \widehat{\phi^2}; `1_[−L/2,L/2]` = indicator function; `∫₀^∞` limits...). A best-effort converter could handle common cases but will mangle some — for a research archive, wrong-looking math is worse than plain math.
So my answer: Yes — that's the source. Confirm what the website does with it now (renders as text with proper fonts). Offer: if they want THAT passage typeset, it's the LaTeX-conversion route (option 2/hybrid from before). The hybrid directive (new files use $...$) wouldn't fix existing text like this; full conversion would.
Let me show exactly how this passage renders through the current pipeline (quick demo) to be concrete — and confirm glyphs aren't broken. Then present the choice plainly. I should be concise. Let me render D-004 head to show what the site produces.
Yes — exactly like that. What you pasted is D-004 lines 9–18, and that's the **raw source style** of the whole archive: Unicode math written inline in running prose (`ϕ²̂`, `1_[−L/2,L/2]`, `∫₀^∞`). Let me confirm what the site does with this exact passage.
tool: Bash
input
{
"command": "cd D:/Python/Quantum && DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=rhweb.settings PYTHONPATH=web ./.venv/Scripts/python.exe -c \"\nfrom dashboard.research_data import render_markdown\nsrc = open('research/derivations/D-004-prime-side-reproduction.md', encoding='utf-8').read()[:1400]\nopen('/tmp/d004.txt','w',encoding='utf-8').write(render_markdown(src))\nprint('ok')\n\"",
"description": "Render D-004 header section through pipeline"
}
raw content_json (database row)
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