From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: math in parentheses
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:14:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sii8yv4v.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: oluoaswji6g.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de
Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>>
>>> I encounter a problem using $..$ expressions when they are enclosed
>>> in parentheses.
>>
>>> This $T$ works, but ($T$) this does not.
>>>
>>> Is that expected behaviour?
>>>
>>> (Note that \(...\) expressions work.)
>>
>> Yes, that is the expected behavior. Org is much pickier about when "$"
>> can be a math delimiter than "\( ... \)". The reason is that "$" can
>> also be used as a regular symbol in Org documents; when it is, it should
>> be *not* be exported as a math delimiter to LaTeX, and distinguishing
>> non-math-delimiting from math-delimiting uses of "$" is not a trivial
>> matter.
>>
>> Thus, when in doubt, use "\( ... \)".
>>
>
> Thanks for following that up. I do use \(...\) when I encounter
> problems with $...$ (which is a lot nicer to type and read).
>
> I am happy with using the fall-back \(...\) every now and then.
>
> Just for me to understand: Is the problem the missing whitespace
> around the $...$ expression?
>
See
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/510/are-and-preferable-to-dollar-signs-for-math-mode
for some arguments for and (mostly) against (although one of the "for"s
is Frank Mittelbach - which surely tilts the scale quite a lot). FWIW,
I've trained myself to use \(...\) and don't find it any harder to read
than $...$ - and I don't mind the extra typing either. The fact that
both org and MathJax deal better with \(...\) just reinforces that
choice.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-28 12:54 math in parentheses Andreas Leha
2014-10-28 15:50 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-10-28 16:03 ` Andreas Leha
2014-10-28 16:31 ` Rasmus
2014-10-28 16:57 ` Andreas Leha
2014-10-28 22:32 ` Rasmus
2014-10-29 9:55 ` Andreas Leha
2014-10-28 17:14 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-10-28 17:30 ` Andreas Leha
2014-10-29 12:24 ` Rasmus
2014-10-29 13:03 ` Nick Dokos
2014-10-31 18:09 ` Eric S Fraga
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