hovercards don't show equations correctly
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	Aug 1 2016, 1:39 PM

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As a reader previewing articles with formulas, I want to see equations display correctly

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Equations are currently not formatted correctly within hovercards (a few examples below).

From User_talk:Gufosowa, here. I pasted the linked image below:

I observed that the text formatting is not shown properly in the hovercard. Text to be shown is formatted as "<math>X</math>". >Instead of applying the effects of this markup or ignoring it, the markup tag is displayed as "X {\displaystyle X}". I uploaded an >image demonstrating the problem here.
Thank you all for your efforts.

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Ensure equations displaying correctly within hovercards. A few pages to test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_equation#See_also (hover on helmholtz equation, vector laplacian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_algebra#See_also (hover through most lie algebra articles)

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Mentioned In: T151055: [Spike: 3 Hours] Investigate page_summary RESTBase API
T113094: [EPIC] The Page Summary API needs to provide useful content for the majority of articles
T141651: Hovercards fail to bold article title when it does not appear verbatim in the text extract
T112137: Hovercards loses manual superscript formatting by requesting plain text
Mentioned Here: T99793: Hovercard ignores math formulae

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• JKatzWMF created this task.Aug 1 2016, 1:39 PM

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similar to T99793. where I currently can't reproduce that bug, but instead got this output behavior.

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• Prtksxna mentioned this in T112137: Hovercards loses manual superscript formatting by requesting plain text.Aug 5 2016, 6:26 AM

From User Almonaster and mentioned on talk page

Another, simpler case is when the linked section includes brackets. These appear to be dropped on the hovercard. That is understandable for parenthetical text, but can be completely incorrect when linking to a maths-based article. For example the hovercard for Pronic number shows "... of the form n", rather than "... of the form n(n+1)"

ovasileva raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Sep 13 2016, 1:00 PM

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