Preview of latex formulas not working?

Question

I tried to edit this question to reflow the formula, and noticed that MathJax stopped rendering the latex code in preview window. I use Google Chrome 10 on Mac OS X 10.6.6 Also why does this valid formula does not render (I've checked it on TexLive-2010):

\begin{align*}
    -N-\frac{1}{N}\sum_{j=1}^N (2j-1) \left(\ln\left(\frac{1}{2}+\int_{\bar{x}}^{x_j}
\exp\left(-\frac{(t-\bar{x})^2}{2s^2}\right)\mathrm{dt}\right)\\\\
+\ln\left(\frac{1}{2}-\int_{\bar{x}}^{x_{N-j+1}}
\exp\left(-\frac{(t-\bar{x})^2}{2s^2}\right)\mathrm{dt}\right)\right)
\end{align*}

The problem is that it seems that \left( requires the right) without the line-break.

Answer 1

I'm not sure I follow. I've pasted that TeX below and it's rendering (albeit slowly) in the preview.

\begin{align*} -N-\frac{1}{N}\sum_{j=1}^N (2j-1) \left(\ln\left(\frac{1}{2}+\int_{\bar{x}}^{x_j} \exp\left(-\frac{(t-\bar{x})^2}{2s^2}\right)\mathrm{dt}\right) \ +\ln\left(\frac{1}{2}-\int_{\bar{x}}^{x_{N-j+1}} \exp\left(-\frac{(t-\bar{x})^2}{2s^2}\right)\mathrm{dt}\right)\right) \end{align*}

EDIT: Probably the place to ask is the MathJaX Users Group. Something like this has already been asked I guess that suggests one find another way of doing it (which you have already done and it is far more readable in my opinion).

Answer 2

Hm here is my separate try, note that there should be 4 slashes, not 2: \begin{align*} -N-\frac{1}{N}\sum_{j=1}^N (2j-1) \left(\ln\left(\frac{1}{2}+\int_{\bar{x}}^{x_j} \exp\left(-\frac{(t-\bar{x})^2}{2s^2}\right)\mathrm{dt}\right)\\ +\ln\left(\frac{1}{2}-\int_{\bar{x}}^{x_{N-j+1}} \exp\left(-\frac{(t-\bar{x})^2}{2s^2}\right)\mathrm{dt}\right)\right) \end{align*}