From: Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hyphen after LaTeX fragments
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:35:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0tht0zl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edphnfbl.fsf@localhost>
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> 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.
>
Well, and as detailed later in my mail, I meant deprecating support for
$...$. But thanks for pointing this out!
>
>> 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.
I think that a change in the documentation alone is insufficient. We
need to make sure that all current and future maintainers of org-latex
are aware of the decision to deprecate $...$ (if we make this decision).
How do we do that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-22 12:39 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
2023-03-22 12:35 ` Dominik Schrempf [this message]
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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