MathJax does not render in hover labels

[nibage]

In the example at https://plot.ly/javascript/LaTeX/ when hovering over the plotted points, the graph shows latex code instead of rendered math text.

[mdtusz]

Confirmed as a bug. Thanks for reporting this!.

[etpinard]

Yep, thanks for reporting. This has been a bug ever since we added support for MathJax more than two years ago.

[etpinard]

It might worthwhile to look into swapping MathJax for KaTeX.

[sglyon]

@etpinard has any testing been done on moving to KaTeX?

[etpinard]

@spencerlyon2 No. This is not a high priority for us at the moment,

[archmoj]

It might worthwhile to look into swapping MathJax for KaTeX.

The following page could be helpful for comparing MathJax v3 and KaTeX:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22582343

[ChasingZenith]

From my browser, it look like this, maybe escape sequence prefix is needed, for example '\\alpha'
instead of '\alpha'

on Chrome

Also, I find that on firefox, the legend size is not correct. (Maybe I should open another issue.)

On firefox

Another example for incorrect legend in firefox

on firefox

on chrome

[khumarahn]

Now latex doesn't render in the basic example here: https://plotly.com/javascript/LaTeX/