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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hyphen after LaTeX fragments
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:25:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edphnfbl.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8iut5ph.fsf@gmail.com>

Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe the best thing to do is drop support for $...$ completely?

We cannot do it. Otherwise, existing Org documents may be broken.

> I quote the Org mode manual section about $...$ syntax:
>
>     Text within the usual LaTeX math delimiters. To avoid conflicts with
>     currency specifications, single ‘$’ characters are only recognized
>     as math delimiters if the enclosed text contains at most two line
>     breaks, is directly attached to the ‘$’ characters with no
>     whitespace in between, and if the closing ‘$’ is followed by
>     whitespace, punctuation or a dash. For the other delimiters, there
>     is no such restriction, so when in doubt, use ‘\(...\)’ as inline
>     math delimiters.
>
> I think this is HIGHLY confusing. I think we should write something
> along the lines: "Do not use $...$. Only for reasons of backwards
> compatibility, $...$ syntax is partly (!) supported."

Feel free to provide a patch.


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-22 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-13 15:15 Hyphen after LaTeX fragments Yuchen Guo
2023-03-20  1:54 ` iemacs
2023-03-21 16:35   ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2023-03-21 16:39     ` Dominik Schrempf
2023-03-22 12:25       ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-03-22 12:35         ` Dominik Schrempf
2023-03-22 13:02           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-21 17:22     ` Yuchen Guo
2023-03-22 12:36       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-17 14:01         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-17 15:29           ` Dominik Schrempf
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-13 19:44 Yuchen Guo
2023-03-14  7:02 Yuchen Guo
2023-03-14  7:04 ` Dominik Schrempf
2023-03-14 11:12 ` Max Nikulin

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