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 	MathML with SVG or PNG fallback
-All three are heavy with html and css which don't belong in the metadata.
+All three are heavy with html and css which doesn't belong in the metadata.
-This function gets the rendered form of an equation according to the editor's preference.  It then searches the
+Without this function, the metadata saved in the raw wikitext contained the rendering determined by the settings
-rendering for the text equivalent of the rendered equation and replaces the rendering with that.
+of the last editor to save the page.
-When a replacement is made, this function returns true and the value with replacement
+This function gets the rendered form of an equation according to the editor's preference before the page is saved.  It
+then searches the rendering for the text equivalent of the rendered equation and replaces the rendering with that so
+that the page is saved without extraneous html/css markup and with a reasonably readable text form of the equation.
+When a replacement is made, this function returns true and the value with replacement; otherwise false and the intital
+value.  To replace multipe equations it is necesary to call this function from within a loop.
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