vanishing backslashes in LaTeX

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  drmathochist · Member · Mar 6, 2008 at 3:17 pm

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  Just this morning a lot of my LaTeX formulas have lost their backslashes. A formula that I wrote, starting “displaystylesumlimits” now starts “displaystylesumlimits”. Characters like “alpha” have become “alpha”.

  Is this a WordPress bug, or is it possible my account has been compromised? To test the latter, is there a way to tell when a given post has been edited, because some of these it should have been months since I touched them.

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  trent · Member · Mar 6, 2008 at 4:09 pm

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  I doubt it was your account being compromised. If no one that knows responds here, maybe send a support request into staff:

  http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

  Trent

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  letsplaymath · Member · Mar 6, 2008 at 4:52 pm

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  This happened to me as well. I just sent a message to the support people, and I changed my password just in case. But since I am not the only one with the glitch, I’m assuming it wasn’t a hacker.

  Denise