From 505b9e5dbbfa9946cca54c788839394618862c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Moor <tom@getoutline.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 07:51:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] test: Cover math block table-cell serialization

Add a test mirroring the code fence case to guard the MathBlock half of the
table-cell <br> encoding and pipe/backslash escaping.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.test.ts | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.test.ts b/server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.test.ts
index 6bca0e689a..d829c1ce91 100644
--- a/server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.test.ts
+++ b/server/models/helpers/DocumentHelper.test.ts
@@ -694,6 +694,62 @@ This is a [test paragraph](https://example.net)`,
       expect(result).not.toMatch(/```abap\n/);
     });
 
+    it("should export math blocks inside table cells on a single line", async () => {
+      const document = await buildDocument({
+        content: {
+          type: "doc",
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: "table",
+              content: [
+                {
+                  type: "tr",
+                  content: [
+                    {
+                      type: "th",
+                      attrs: { colspan: 1, rowspan: 1 },
+                      content: [
+                        {
+                          type: "paragraph",
+                          content: [{ type: "text", text: "Header" }],
+                        },
+                      ],
+                    },
+                  ],
+                },
+                {
+                  type: "tr",
+                  content: [
+                    {
+                      type: "td",
+                      attrs: { colspan: 1, rowspan: 1 },
+                      content: [
+                        {
+                          type: "math_block",
+                          content: [
+                            { type: "text", text: "a | b\n\\frac{1}{2}" },
+                          ],
+                        },
+                      ],
+                    },
+                  ],
+                },
+              ],
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      });
+      const result = await DocumentHelper.toMarkdown(document, {
+        includeTitle: false,
+      });
+      // Math blocks inside tables should use <br> tags rather than literal
+      // newlines that would break the table row structure, with pipes and
+      // backslashes escaped so the content cannot break out of the column.
+      expect(result).toContain("$$<br>a \\| b<br>\\\\frac{1}{2}<br>$$");
+      // The block content must not introduce raw newlines inside the table.
+      expect(result).not.toMatch(/\$\$\n/);
+    });
+
     it("should include collection title by default", async () => {
       const collection = await buildCollection({
         name: "Test Collection",