I subscribe to several proprietary math sites.
On at least one of those sites, some mathematical symbols do not appear on the Brave browser, but do appear when I load the same web page in Firefox.
So the question is: does Brave support KaTeX or LaTeX coding. These are fairly common, and useful mathematics typesetting codes.
Probably come down to whether Chrome supports it.
Have you checked out any Chrome extensions?
I have not. I just discovered the problem. Any suggestions?
Fat-fingered on my iPad.
Spelling and syntax occasionally, and creatively, added by Apple auto-text.
Robert S. Carnes
@robscott,
Can you tell me what site(s) you’re seeing this error so that I can test it on my end? Additionally, are you using the mobile browser or desktop browser when this behavior occurs?
The issue is with a website that caters to math and broadly STEM topics, Brilliant. www.brilliant.com. The “drop-outs” are quite variable. It not like it’s a total failure of math type-setting. I’ve provided a comprative set of pdfs of one page, involving complex numbers.
In math typology, “Z” is a complex number and it’s conjugate is denoted with a bar above the Z. See Firefox version and compare to Brave version. Focus on the first sentence. In the Brave version the bar above the Z denoted the conjugate of Z is missing on Brave, but not on Firefox.
@robscott,
I’ve created an account but would you be able to tell me exactly which course/lesson it is that you see this behavior in? I want to get as close to your exact circumstances as possible.
Also, just to note, it’s brilliant.org rather than .com – I was very confused there for a moment 
You are correct. It’s brilliant.org, although I seem to have found it somehow using “.com” as well.
Regardless, I’m copying a message to which I responded to either another member of the Brave community, or perhaps, I’m just not being clear in my description of the problem.
As I point out below, this is not a problem will all math type-set viewed on Brave. It appears very specific, perhaps ASCII-specific.
The title of the course is “Complex Numbers.”
I’ve provided a comparative set of pdfs of one page, involving complex numbers.
In math typology, “Z” is a complex number and it’s conjugate is denoted with a bar above the Z. See Firefox version and compare to Brave version. Focus on the first sentence. In the Brave version the bar above the Z denoted the conjugate of Z is missing on Brave, but not on Firefox.
Here’s a link the that webpage: https://brilliant.org/practice/the-triangle-inequality-2/?p=8
Finally, as second example, more glaring, the Brave version fails to show the division or rational number symbol between the numerator and denominator at https://brilliant.org/practice/arithmetic-shortcuts/?p=6
See respective screen shots of that also attached.
That is rather strange – I seem to get the right characters in Brave:
I doubt this is this case but just to check, can you see if disabling Hardware Acceleration in Settings makes any difference?
Settings --> Additional Settings --> System --> Hardware Acceleration
Good thought.
I tried it.
Per attached, I de-selected “Hardware acceleration” from the Brave browser settings. I re-launched the Brave Browser.
I went to the same quiz question where the missing complex conjugate symbol was noticed before. It’s still missing.
I agree that this is more subtle than just a problem with Brave’s handling of LaTex type-set.
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