diff --git a/src/ui/views/inline-field.tsx b/src/ui/views/inline-field.tsx
index 6d68d140..c6eab47c 100644
--- a/src/ui/views/inline-field.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/views/inline-field.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { InlineField, extractInlineFields, parseInlineValue } from "data-import/inline-field";
-import { Values } from "data-model/value";
 import { MarkdownPostProcessorContext, MarkdownRenderChild } from "obsidian";
 import { h, render } from "preact";
 import { DataviewContext, DataviewInit, Lit } from "ui/markdown";
@@ -7,16 +6,10 @@ import { canonicalizeVarName } from "util/normalize";
 
 /** Replaces raw textual inline fields in text containers with pretty HTML equivalents. */
 export async function replaceInlineFields(ctx: MarkdownPostProcessorContext, init: DataviewInit): Promise<void> {
-    let inlineFields = extractInlineFields(init.container.innerHTML);
+    const inlineFields = extractInlineFields(init.container.innerHTML);
     if (inlineFields.length == 0) return;
 
-    const text = ctx.getSectionInfo(init.container)?.text;
-    let inlineFieldsFromText: InlineField[] | null = null;
-    if (text) {
-        inlineFieldsFromText = extractInlineFields(text);
-    }
-
-    let component = new MarkdownRenderChild(init.container);
+    const component = new MarkdownRenderChild(init.container);
     ctx.addChild(component);
 
     // Iterate through the raw HTML and replace inline field matches with corresponding rendered values.
@@ -60,27 +53,33 @@ export async function replaceInlineFields(ctx: MarkdownPostProcessorContext, ini
     // Replace the container children with the new rendered children.
     // TODO: Replace this with a dom-to-dom diff to reduce the actual amount of updates.
     init.container.replaceChildren(...template.content.childNodes);
-
+    let inlineFieldsFromText: InlineField[] | undefined;
+    let hasRetrievedText: boolean = false;
     for (let index = 0; index < inlineFields.length; index++) {
         const box = init.container.querySelector("#dataview-inline-field-" + index);
         if (!box) continue;
 
         const context = Object.assign({}, init, { container: box, component: component });
-
-        let parsedValue;
-        if (inlineFieldsFromText && inlineFieldsFromText[index].key == inlineFields[index].key) {
-            const parsedValueFromText = parseInlineValue(inlineFieldsFromText[index].value);
-            if (Values.isString(parsedValueFromText)) {
-                parsedValue = parsedValueFromText;
+        const parseInlineValueWrapper = (fieldVal: string) => {
+            if (fieldVal.startsWith("<span class=\"math\"")) {
+                // allows math symbols to be rendered in reading view
+                if (!hasRetrievedText) {
+                    hasRetrievedText = true;
+                    let text = ctx.getSectionInfo(init.container)?.text;
+                    if (text) {
+                        inlineFieldsFromText = extractInlineFields(text);
+                    }
+                }
+                if (!inlineFieldsFromText) return parseInlineValue(fieldVal);
+                return parseInlineValue(inlineFieldsFromText[index].value);
+            } else {
+                return parseInlineValue(fieldVal);
             }
         }
-        if (parsedValue === undefined) {
-            parsedValue = parseInlineValue(inlineFields[index].value);
-        }
 
         render(
             <DataviewContext.Provider value={context}>
-                <Lit value={parsedValue} inline={true} sourcePath={ctx.sourcePath} />
+                <Lit value={parseInlineValueWrapper(inlineFields[index].value)} inline={true} sourcePath={ctx.sourcePath} />
             </DataviewContext.Provider>,
             box
         );