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I would like to suggest a new feature that when reviewing suggested edits on sites that support MathJax that the suggested edit queue renders the MathJax in the rendered output view. The following suggested edit on Electrical Engineering is an example:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/25219

Personally I find that verifying the edit is valid is difficult when that view doesn't render the MathJax. I've been in the habit of opening a new window to paste the markup into a new question (that I discard) to view the rendered output, but it doesn't make for a very efficient workflow.

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    And more generally in all edit diffs. Commented Oct 12, 2013 at 19:30
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    Given how many times I've done MathJax edits on math.stackexchange, I kinda wonder if they already have it, unless the guys over there also have the patience to do what you've been doing. Commented Oct 12, 2013 at 19:33
  • How would we highlight it though? Commented Oct 12, 2013 at 20:15
  • s/LaTeX/MathJax/g Commented Sep 17, 2014 at 12:45
  • @Sean thanks good idea, when I originally posted I didn't understand the differences. Commented Sep 17, 2014 at 12:49
  • @PeterJ :) no worries Commented Sep 17, 2014 at 12:53
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    I'm going to shamelessly bump this request. It's still hard to review those edits, I don't think anything changed in the meantime. Commented Sep 17, 2016 at 18:09

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I think this is a very good idea. However, I can imagine this could be quite time-consuming from a programmer's point of view. Look for example at revision 2 here. The LaTeX is not completely new according to the highlighting software, there are parts that are not made green, so simply running MathJax over the output of the highlighting software wouldn't be sufficient (see this also).

But, what would be easily possible if I'm not mistaken, is to make a button in the suggested edit review queue to view the new post.

Now, it's only possible to view the rendered output difference or markdown difference. Adding a third option to view the rendered output of the post after editing would solve this issue and could also be helpful in other cases, when all the highlighting makes the difference view a little confusing.

Another option, but probably more time-consuming, would be to let the highlighting software see MathJax parts as blocks. Either the block existed before, or it didn't. If it existed in the old post, nothing has to be highlighted. If it didn't exist in the old post, the whole block is assumed new.

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    That's a good idea on the seperate button, often for more complex equations it's handy to have them in a new browser window regardless. Commented Sep 17, 2014 at 11:22

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