Last modified: 2006-11-02 20:45:00 UTC
In the current MediaWiki the markup commands inside \hbox (and \mbox as well) are not recognised. For example, all of the following equations: <math>\mbox{{}}</math> <math>\mbox{\bf a}</math> <math>\mbox{$A$}</math> <math>\hbox{\hbox{A}}</math> fail to render, producing the message "Failed to parse (lexing error)".
*** Bug 4355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This doesn't work for security reasons. One could write anything there, including something nasty. Because: * we don't know how to check what's nasty and what isn't * complex things in \mbox{}es are useful very rarely, because <math> is supposed to be just for math it's not considered a major issue.
