Make inline math selectable in part
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	Dvorapa
	Mar 13 2016, 4:11 PM

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The old HTML and MathML options for rendering inline mathematical formulae removed from MediaWiki in v1.19 had one advantage. An outputted text was user-friendly selectable, therefore copy-paste-able. Please get this functionality back somehow. Current options are copy-paste-able, but just as a whole, not in part. I can not click into long formula and select part of it. And if I select the whole formula (in any of those three options in settings: PNG, LaTeX or SVG) and copy&paste it somewhere, there always stay some redundant fragment of a code.

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Dvorapa created this task.Mar 13 2016, 4:11 PM

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Dvorapa renamed this task from Make inline math selectable to Make inline math selectable in part.Mar 13 2016, 4:24 PM

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Dvorapa added a parent task: T78046: Implement a single math rendering mode that works across all devices (MathML / SVG using mathoid).Mar 13 2016, 4:32 PM

• mobrovac removed a parent task: T78046: Implement a single math rendering mode that works across all devices (MathML / SVG using mathoid).Mar 15 2016, 8:28 AM

@Dvorapa which browser are you using. With Firefox that should be possible. Browsers that do not support MathML can not copy fragements of formulae.

@Physikerwelt Newest Chrome

Chrome does not support the MathML part of HTML5. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430

Physikerwelt unsubscribed.Mar 22 2016, 11:17 PM

Arlolra removed a project: Parsoid.Apr 12 2016, 10:57 PM

Pkra moved this task from Inbox to SVG specific on the Math board.Dec 8 2018, 12:10 AM

Aklapper added a project: Wikimedia-SVG-rendering.Jun 24 2020, 5:43 AM

Aklapper moved this task from SVG specific to Inbox on the Math board.Jun 24 2020, 5:44 AM

Physikerwelt moved this task from Inbox to icebox on the Mathoid board.Feb 3 2021, 1:03 PM

@Aklapper : I would remove Wikimedia-SVG-rendering. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-svg-rendering/ it is imho not about server-side-rendering of svgs .

Aklapper removed a project: Wikimedia-SVG-rendering.May 3 2021, 8:54 AM

The new MathML rendering mode supports it now again.

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