Markdown display is broken with latex markers being improperly interpreted

[phazei]

Which version of LM Studio?
LM Studio 0.3.9

Which operating system?
Windows 11

I should be able to use normal text characters even if it's markdown, I've never seen a markdown viewer break with dollar signs and percent characters.

[MovGP0]

Text bewteen $ characters is interpreted as LaTeX code and therefore rendered as mathematical formula using MathJax. This is how a markdown viewer should behave.

So from my perspective, this is the correct behavior.

[phazei]

So you're saying that anytime someone turns on MarkDown, now dollar signs can't be used without explicit escaping? Well, that's not how a single LLM markdown viewer works.

Now, on any model I use, anytime I discuss money, both my input text and their output text gets messed up and is missing things for formatted poorly.

WIth deepseek, chatgpt, claude, all of them support latex, and markdown, and have no issues displaying $1.23 from input or output.

I also tried a whole bunch of combinations in Claude with no issues.

It seems that once the latex section is open, then I use a % sign, which starts a latex comment and while it displays without italics, breaks the rest of the markdown. But with most interpreters, I think there are additional checks to make sure the casual use of a $ doesn't initiate latex.