diff --git a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/mmultiscripts.js b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/mmultiscripts.js
index 0e213be85..3108f9756 100644
--- a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/mmultiscripts.js
+++ b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/mmultiscripts.js
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ MathJax.Hub.Register.StartupHook("HTML-CSS Jax Ready",function () {
       var BOX = this.HTMLgetScripts(stack,s);
       var sub = BOX[0], sup = BOX[1], presub = BOX[2], presup = BOX[3];
 
+      //
       // <mmultiscripts> children other than the base can be <none/>,
       // <mprescripts/>, <mrow></mrow> etc so try to get HTMLgetScale from the
       // first element with a spanID. See issue 362.
-      var sscale = this.HTMLgetScale();
+      //
+      var sscale = scale;
       for (var i = 1; i < this.data.length; i++) {
         if (this.data[i] && this.data[i].spanID) {
           sscale = this.data[i].HTMLgetScale();
diff --git a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/multiline.js b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/multiline.js
index 60916f630..70fbaf3d7 100644
--- a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/multiline.js
+++ b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/autoload/multiline.js
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ MathJax.Hub.Register.StartupHook("HTML-CSS Jax Ready",function () {
       var stack = HTMLCSS.createStack(span);
       var state = {
             n: 0, Y: 0,
-            scale: this.HTMLgetScale(),
+            scale: this.scale,
             isTop: isTop,
             values: {},
             VALUES: VALUES
diff --git a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js
index 50bb54945..5b608ed7a 100644
--- a/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js
+++ b/unpacked/jax/output/HTML-CSS/jax.js
@@ -2391,6 +2391,7 @@
           style.marginLeft = style.marginRight = HTMLCSS.Em(space);
           span.bbox.w += 2*space; span.bbox.r += 2*space;
 	}
+        this.SUPER(arguments).HTMLhandleSpace.call(this,span);
       }
     });
 
@@ -2551,7 +2552,7 @@
           if (stretch[i]) {box.bbox = this.data[i].HTMLstretchH(box,W).bbox}
           if (box.bbox.w > WW) {WW = box.bbox.w}
         }}
-	var t = HTMLCSS.TeX.rule_thickness, factor = HTMLCSS.FONTDATA.TeX_factor;
+	var t = HTMLCSS.TeX.rule_thickness * this.mscale, factor = HTMLCSS.FONTDATA.TeX_factor;
 	var base = boxes[this.base] || {bbox: this.HTMLzeroBBox()};
 	var x, y, z1, z2, z3, dw, k, delta = 0;
         if (base.bbox.ic) {delta = 1.3*base.bbox.ic + .05} // adjust faked IC to be more in line with expeted results