# Three Mathjax Problems

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/three-mathjax-problems/18401>\
**Category:** Bear Bug Report\
**Tags:** maths, bug\
**Created:** [October 31, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/three-mathjax-problems/18401 "2025-10-31T17:29:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bearperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@bearperson](https://community.bear.app/u/bearperson)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/three-mathjax-problems/18401/1 "2025-10-31T17:29:47Z")

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I’m a new (potential actually) Bear user and I was excited to learn that it now has mathematical typesetting support. However, immediately upon trying the feature I encountered several problems.

1. Math doesn’t render in Markdown tables. Neither inline math $…$ nor display math $$…$$ produce any typesetting inside tables.
2. Display math with the $$…$$ and the formula on a single line doesn’t produce any typesetting.

See attached screenshot for illustration of issues 1 and 2.

1. Large-ish files with a lot of mathematical typesetting are very very slow to scroll. The bigger the file, the slower the scrolling performance. As an example, I attempted to import a file, which according to Bear contains 5176 words and 32620 characters (original Markdown file was about 34 KB), and the performance was so slow as to be completely unusable.

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- **Bear Version** : 2.6.3 (13844)
- **OS Version** : Tahoe 26.0.1 (25A362)
- **What were you doing** : Trying to use math typesetting in Bear.
- **What feature did you use** : Math typesetting.
- **What happened** : I encountered two parsing problems and one performance (scrolling) problem.
- **What did you expect to happen** : I expected math to be typeset and scrolling to be smooth.

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**Author:** ![Prometheus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/prometheus/32/6621_2.png) [@Prometheus](https://community.bear.app/u/Prometheus)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/three-mathjax-problems/18401/2 "2025-11-04T01:47:22Z")

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1. I agree, would love to have MathJax in tables.
2. Can’t you wrap the formula in single $ to get the inline function? It works for me.
3. I have this same problem. The developers have been in contact and I’ve provided a few example notes with the problem. They’re working on it. Hoping for a fix soon!