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Closes #2407.

Change

Chat draws math written with dollar signs, beside the \(…\) and \[…\] it already drew:

• $…$ inline.
• $$…$$ as display math, on its own lines or on one line.
• A ```math fence as display math (GitHub's form). One KaTeX cannot draw stays the code block it is.

The design follows GitHub's dollar math, with stricter inline rules, because agents write prices and shell variables in the same replies. An inline $ reads as math only when all of these hold:

• It follows no Latin letter, digit, backslash or $. Korean, Japanese and Chinese text may touch it, so 값은$x$이다 and $x$는 are drawn.
• The formula has no space just inside either $, and closes on the same line.
• The closing $ comes before no Latin letter, digit, _, $ or shell mark ({ ( # @ *). Sentence punctuation ($x$?) is fine.
• It is not a number, a space, then a word: that is a price.

So it costs $5 and $10, I paid $5 for X$, $HOME/${PATH} and cd $HOME/$(whoami) stay as written, while $E=mc^2$, $2 + 2 = 4$ and What is $x$? are drawn.

Known trade-offs:

• $2 x$ stays text under the price rule ($2x$ is drawn).
• $HOME/$? reads HOME/ as a formula.
• A blank line ends a display formula's search for its close, as LaTeX rejects one there. So an unclosed $$ or \[ no longer hides a later formula. A display formula with a blank line inside now shows as text.

Two older \[ cases are fixed with the new reader:

• An unclosed \[ no longer hides a later formula.
• \[x\] and prose on one line no longer swallows the blocks after it.

A formula KaTeX cannot draw, or not yet, shows as written: $x$, or $$…$$ on its own lines. The reply's MD copy is its source, dollars included. An omp Ask card holding a ```math fence stays as drawn, as one with Mermaid does (#2233).

Formulas take the reply's text color in every theme, as \(…\) already did. No new CSS colors.

Bundle: KaTeX was already bundled locally and lazy-loaded with the first formula (#493). This PR changes neither.

• JS chunk: 259 KB raw, 76.6 KB gzip, 71.3 KB brotli.
• Stylesheet: 29.8 KB raw, 7.9 KB gzip.
• Fonts: loaded only as KaTeX uses them.

The parser change adds no measurable size to the main chunk. Prose with no math still fetches none of it.

Validation

• bun test src/lib/markdown.test.ts server/omp-ask.test.ts: 64 pass. Fail-first: the new parser, render and card tests fail on main, and each review fix's test fails on the commit before it. The inline scanner keeps its "looks once" bound, now with a $ fixture. A 200k-char line of hostile dollars reads in linear time.
• bun scripts/chat-math-demo-regression.ts (added to the browser lane) on the demo app at 1280 and 390, Codex dark and light. It checks that:
  • 3 inline and 3 display formulas ($, $$, ```math, \(, \[) are drawn by KaTeX with no error and no code block;
  • every formula is in the reply's text color;
  • the prices line reads as written;
  • the MD copy equals the source.
• bun run check fast: green.
• Reviews: omo code reviewer and Codex (gpt-6.1-terra, xhigh), three rounds. All findings are fixed; the record is in a comment below. Round 3: omo APPROVE. Codex's only round-3 finding (fallback layout) is fixed in the last commit.
• Not run: bun run check integration browser (CI runs it).

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Review record (omo code reviewer + Codex gpt-6.1-terra xhigh, three rounds).

Round 1: both REQUEST_CHANGES.

• An unclosed $$ hid a later one-line formula (\[ too, on main). Resolved: the search stops at a line that is a whole formula.
• $HOME/${PATH} / ${HOME}/${USER} read as math. Resolved: { after a closing $ keeps it text.
• $2 + 2 = 4$ was taken for a price. Resolved: a price is a number, a space, then a word.
• $$E=mc^2$$ where … swallowed every block after it (\[ too, on main). Resolved: that line is prose.
• Korean particles touching a formula kept it text. Resolved: only Latin letters and digits count beside a $.
• A $$ fallback lost its lines. Resolved.
• The browser color check covered one formula. Resolved: it now covers all six.

Round 2: both REQUEST_CHANGES.

• $HOME/$? read as math. I added ? ! to the closer check, which omo found broke What is $x$?. Reverted: $HOME/$? is an accepted rare false positive. # @ * ( still keep it text, so $(whoami) stays text.
• An unclosed formula hid a later multi-line one. Resolved: a blank line ends the search.
• A one-line fallback showed on three lines. Resolved.
• $2 x$ stays text. Declined: this is the deliberate price rule.

Round 3: omo APPROVE. Codex's only finding: a three-line fallback showed on one line. Resolved in 2ad09206 (the block records oneLine), with a test that fails before; omo verified it in the same round.

Noted, not changed:

• A blank line inside display math now ends it (LaTeX rejects one there).
• $5 + tax$ renders as math, and $f$(x) stays text.
• $$$$ parses as an empty block, as on main.

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Stop the search at a new multiline formula.

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Review comments at @shared/markdown.ts:
- Line 475: Update the multiline formula search in the loop containing this
condition to stop when it encounters an opener for the other formula delimiter,
even if that formula closes on a later line. This lets the parser handle the
later formula separately instead of consuming its closing delimiter as part of
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Summary

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• New Features
  • Chat messages now render inline formulas written with single dollar signs and display formulas written with double dollar signs, alongside the existing math delimiters.
  • Fenced math blocks are displayed as formulas. When a formula can’t be rendered, its original text remains visible.
  • Dollar amounts and shell-variable text are preserved as ordinary text when they don’t match the math formatting rules.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of unmatched math delimiters so surrounding text remains readable.

The chat Markdown parser now recognizes dollar-delimited inline and display math. The renderer preserves formula source when rendering is unavailable or fails. New parser and browser regression checks cover math rendering and related text behavior.

Changes: Chat math rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse dollar-delimited math shared/markdown.ts, src/lib/markdown.test.ts, changelog.d/chat-math-dollars.md	The parser recognizes inline $...$ and display $$...$$ formulas with boundary and closure rules. Tests cover plain-text cases, unmatched delimiters, and repeated input.
Render math and preserve source src/components/Markdown.tsx, src/components/ChatView.css, server/omp-ask.ts, server/omp-ask.test.ts	Math rendering preserves delimiter-formatted source when KaTeX is unavailable or fails. Math fences render as display math, and the server treats them as undrawn blocks.
Verify chat math in browser CI scripts/chat-math-demo-regression.ts, scripts/ci-browser.sh, scripts/ci-browser-timings.json	A Playwright script checks rendering, prices, themes, viewport sizes, and Markdown copy output. The browser CI lane runs the script and records its timing.

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Possibly related issues

• devswha/ovis#2407 — The issue requests inline and display dollar-delimited math in chat with a raw-text fallback; this change adds those parser and rendering paths.

Suggested reviewers: kinetic27, kilhyeonjun, lyonbot

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 21455

A malformed display formula can prevent a later valid formula from rendering. The impact is limited to affected messages.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: rendering chat math written with dollar signs.
Description check		The description includes the linked issue, a detailed Change section, and a Validation section with commands, results, browser coverage, and the skipped integration/browser check.
Linked Issues check		Issue #2407 has three coding acceptance criteria. Each is implemented at the reviewed head. 1. Inline math renders [#2407]: inlineMarks in shared/markdown.ts now matches single-dollar $…$ under t…
Out of Scope Changes check		Each changed file connects to the math feature in #2407 or to its verification: - shared/markdown.ts: dollar inline and display parsing, price and shell-variable guards, and the \\\\[ fixes that the P…

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Explanation

Issue #2407 has three coding acceptance criteria. Each is implemented at the reviewed head.

1. Inline math renders [#2407]: inlineMarks in shared/markdown.ts now matches single-dollar $…$ under the stated rules. parseInline emits { type: "math", dollar: true }. Inline in src/components/Markdown.tsx passes dollar to MathExpression, which calls katex.renderToString. The issue example $E = mc^2$ meets the rules: the opener follows no Latin letter, digit, backslash or $, the body has no edge spaces, the closer is on the same line, and the price rule does not match.

2. Block math renders display-style [#2407]: startsBlock and parseMarkdown now open $$ display formulas, including multi-line bodies and one-line $$…$$. Blocks renders them with displayMode, which yields the markdown-math-display class. The issue example $$ \int… $$ on its own lines takes this path. Centering comes from the existing .markdown-math-display style, which this PR does not change. The ChatView.css diff could not be read, so centering is not verified from source.

3. Unparseable math falls back to raw text [#2407]: MathExpression returns the source form when KaTeX is not loaded, when nesting is too deep, or when renderToString throws (strict: "ignore"). The source form keeps the original delimiters. parseMarkdown marks an unclosed $$ or \[ as prose and keeps parsing later blocks, so the message is not broken.

Tests: the PR summary says src/lib/markdown.test.ts covers $…$ inline cases, $$ display cases, unmatched delimiters, and KaTeX fallback. The test file was not read. This verdict relies on the code paths above and the reported test coverage.

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Explanation

Each changed file connects to the math feature in #2407 or to its verification:

• shared/markdown.ts: dollar inline and display parsing, price and shell-variable guards, and the \\[ fixes that the PR description names as part of the same parser change.
• src/components/Markdown.tsx: KaTeX rendering and fallback for dollar formulas and math fences.
• src/components/ChatView.css: a fallback style, .markdown-math-source, for formulas KaTeX cannot draw.
• server/omp-ask.ts and server/omp-ask.test.ts: a math fence is treated like mermaid and svg in the card. This follows from the new fence syntax, so the card does not show math code text as a drawable block.
• src/lib/markdown.test.ts: tests for the new syntax.
• scripts/chat-math-demo-regression.ts, scripts/ci-browser.sh, scripts/ci-browser-timings.json: a browser regression check for the new rendering, added to the browser CI lane. This is verification support.
• changelog.d/chat-math-dollars.md: the changelog entry that the repository contributing rules require.

No change was found that is unrelated to the linked issue. The regression script is large, but its checks match the rendering and copy behavior that this PR changes.

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Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 8 functions across 7 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Merging cd100e7 (closes #2407): Chat draws math written with dollar signs ($…$ inline, $$…$$ display, math fences) beside the \(…\) and \[…\] it already drew, with strict inline rules so prices and shell variables stay text; the owner OK'd the screenshots and brought it into 0.4.22. Review by the merge pass (own repros): KaTeX keeps trust off (\href/\url to javascript:, \htmlClass/Data/Style, \includegraphics and raw <img onerror> all render safely); prices, shell variables, table currency and code spans/fences holding `$` stay text; the parser is linear (200 KiB adversarial input in at most 84 ms); an omp Ask card holding a math fence keeps omp's own view, as mermaid and svg do. The review's MEDIUM (a $ before a code span pulled its backtick into a formula) is fixed in 28e3ebd with a fail-first test. CodeRabbit's Minor fixed in cd100e7 (an unfinished display formula's search stops at a line opening the other kind, so a valid \[…\] after a stray $$ is kept). LOW noted: a line starting with $$ now splits a paragraph (as \[ already did); repository .md file previews also draw $ math.