Re: org latex/beamer math escape in a ``surrounding context'': $a$'s

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> Hi, I'd to have some math in beamer/latex. In LaTeX I'd write
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>                $a$'s
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> The a is the math, the apostroph-s is the surrounding text. Math-escape
> works fine in org, but it seems the $ -- $ must be surrounded by blanks.
> In the above example, exporting to latex/beamer does not give the desired
> result. The immediately trailing "'s" get the $-signs interpreted
> verbatimely. Same applies for other surrounding contexts like
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>    ``$a$''  $a$s
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> but ($a$) and "$a$" do a math-escape. Is there a solution for the above (I
> don't want to write  $a$ 's)? Or is there a rationale behind that, so I know
> when to except an escape and when no?

Maybe not what you wanted to hear, but I've inquired about various
things like this before and due to issues with various things I've
opted primarily to just do \(math\). So:

\(a\)s

Does that work for you?


John

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