Markdown with LaTeX equations using underscores results in html italics `<em>` tags

[kdheepak]

I tried various combinations of using {} but couldn't get it to work as expected.

ALL software version info

Software Version Info

panel version 1.6.0

[etihwo]

If you use markdown_it directly you will get the same result:

from pprint import pprint
from markdown_it import MarkdownIt

md = MarkdownIt()
a = md.render(
    r"""
$$y_t = \text{intercept}_t + \text{slope}_t \cdot y_{t-1} + \text{steyx}_t \cdot \epsilon$$
     """
)

pprint(a)

('<p>$$y_t = \\text{intercept}_t + \\text{slope}<em>t \\cdot y</em>{t-1} + \\text{steyx}_t \\cdot \\epsilon$$</p>\n')

With markdown-it, the following configuration seems to solve your issue md.disable("emphasis"). In the pn.pane.Markdown, panel it is possible to pass some options to the MarkdownIt parser (with renderer_options keyword) but I did not find the possibility to disable the emphasis rules with it.

One workaround is to use

import panel as pn
from markdown_it import MarkdownIt

md = MarkdownIt()
md.disable("emphasis")
pn.extension("mathjax")
pn.pane.Markdown(
    md.render(
        r"""
$$y_t = \text{intercept}_t + \text{slope}_t \cdot y_{t-1} + \text{steyx}_t \cdot \epsilon$$
                 """
    )
).servable()