`$`-math mixed up with HTML tags

[nschloe]

GitHub's $-math is sometimes mixed up with HTML tags despite it being protected by $-delimiters. This leads to issues like

$$
a <b > c
$$

Output:

---

$$ a c $$

---

(The <b > is incorrectly interpreted as a HTML tag although it's enclosed in $.)

More such issues can be found in the community discussions:

• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/17022
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/36915
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/41087

[Duggi-Niharika-Sai-06]

I need to work on open source projects as a part of my university course. I am interested to contribute to this problem.

Can you please assign this to me?