[BUG]: \texit and \emph not working within \text in Mathjax

[MonsterDruide1]

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• This issue is not a duplicate

What are the steps to reproduce this bug?

1. Create a card with an inline mathjax block containing some nested \textit{italic} or \emph{other italic} within \text{}
2. View it in AnkiDroid

Expected behaviour

The text should be displayed in italics, as displayed by LaTeX/Anki on PC

Actual behaviour

The tags \textit{} and \emph{} are displayed without changing how the text inside renders

Debug info

AnkiDroid Version = 2.16.3

Android Version = 13

ProductFlavor = play

Manufacturer = samsung

Model = SM-T870

Hardware = qcom

Webview User Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; SM-T870 Build/TP1A.220624.014; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/115.0.5790.166 Safari/537.36

ACRA UUID = 99befa59-db58-4f4e-87e5-dd6edc2b780b

New schema = false

Scheduler = std2

Crash Reports Enabled = true

DatabaseV2 Enabled = true

(Optional) Anything else you want to share?

No response

Research

• I am reporting a bug specific to AnkiDroid (Android app)
• I have checked the manual and the FAQ and could not find a solution to my issue
• (Optional) I have confirmed the issue is not resolved in the latest alpha release (instructions)

[pavreh]

I cannot reproduce.

[david-allison]

This is what Anki Desktop 2.1.65 shows:

Can't reproduce. Could you show us how this differs on Anki Desktop?

[MonsterDruide1]

Anki Desktop:

Ankidroid:

Huh, this shows \textit{} working correctly. The use case I had was a bit more specific, I'll test around a bit more to see why \textit{} broke in that case. Either way, \emph is not working here.

[MonsterDruide1]

Here's one:
Anki Desktop:

Ankidroid:

So, I'd actually correct my report to "Ankidroid doesn't recognize LaTeX-Tags within \text{}-blocks", or something like that.

[david-allison]

Thanks, could you edit the main post with updated information?

[MonsterDruide1]

Found a bug report in MathJax for this specific scenario:
mathjax/MathJax#2846

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[MonsterDruide1]

still searching for solutions

[david-allison]

@MonsterDruide1 Still a problem in 2.17?