Steps to reproduce Use this md file contents: Confidence Intervals - Scenario A: Interval is mean$\pm$ME( marginOfError) where ME is critical value Z * standard error, i.e. $\mu\pm\left( \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{ n }} \right)*Z_{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$ - Z value for $\frac{\alpha}{2}$: NORM.S.INV(1-alpha…

disclaimer: i have not personally used the export functionality. it appears that the * in “critical value Z * standard” is opening italics formatting. escaping it with \* might solve your issue.

Thank you. That’s indeed the case and now easy for me to address. But I do still think this is a bug, in that what I see rendered by Obsidian is not what I see in the PDF rendition. As motivation, I’ll tell you what happened to me. The text I shared is part of a larger Obsidian page that I was usi…

i agree that Obsidian should render what will be rendered by its export features. one thing to note, this is only an issue for Live Preview. if you go into Reading mode, you will see the same italics rendering. much quicker way to check for these things than exporting to pdf first, even if not idea…

Good idea. I’ll know to do this next time. Thanks.

This is another manifestation of this: [image] Reading mode: asterisk or underscore within inline math are incorrectly interpreted as markdown markers (italics, bold) for the paragraph Bug reports Steps to reproduce Write an italic sentence and in the middle …

PDF export of some Latex not rendered at Latex

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WhiteNoise May 3, 2026, 9:30pm 6

This is another manifestation of this: