From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [POLL] Syntax change: make \[...\] non-inline (+1) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:17:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87oaw6ix5r.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34246) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCXVU-0007AA-VF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:17:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCXVP-0002eK-32 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:17:40 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60576) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCXVO-0002eB-SS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:17:35 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XCXVO-0005CF-0Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:17:34 +0200 Received: from nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com ([66.187.233.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:17:34 +0200 Received: from ndokos by nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:17:34 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Federico Beffa writes: > Who is entitled to vote? If I am then here is my vote in favor for the > following reasons: > > 1. the construct \[...\] has been defined in LaTeX for equations which > must stand out and therefore belong on separate lines. It would > therefore make sense to conform to the borrowed syntax. > I don't quite understand why you are so gung-ho for this but the following works fine: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \documentclass{article} \begin{document} This is a displayed \[ x = 3 \] equation. \end{document} --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So what exactly is the problem? > 5. Existing documents are very easy to fix. > Backwards compatibility is important. It has been broken before, for very good reasons, and even though it was done very carefully, it still caused many problems (still does). So I don't buy the "very easy to fix" part: it will bite somebody two minutes before he/she has to make a presentation (or even during the presentation - DAMHIKT). Nick