Formatting of right hand side of equation should be identical to formatting of left hand side
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"> <msub> <mi>L</mi> <mi>x</mi> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <msub> <mi>L</mi> <mrow> <mi>x</mi> <mphantom> <mi>fail</mi> </mphantom> </mrow> </msub> </math>