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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: org latex/beamer math escape in a ``surrounding context'': $a$'s
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:44:32 -0500
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To: Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no>
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does \(a\)'s work?

Martin Steffen writes:

> Hi, I'd to have some math in beamer/latex. In LaTeX I'd write
>
>                $a$'s
>
> 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 $-signs interpreted
> verbatimely. Same applies for other surrounding contexts like
>
>    ``$a$''  $a$s
>
> 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?
>
> Martin

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