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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug: wrong interpretation of LaTeX [8.2.6 (8.2.6-47-ge3d2c1-elpa @ c:/Users/beffa/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20140526/)]
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:20:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKrPhPOQgSWfdkPw1pUZdtpKpVfZQPc7NrEWOfz0hsN5LQn8BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbqkikzb.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

I understand that. However, using \[...\] inline within a paragraph is
not the intended use of \[...\]. The use of \[...\] is for
mathematical expressions which you want to stand out, on their own
lines.

For inline mathematical expressions there are the constructs \(...\) and $...$.

Regards,
Fede

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Nicolas Goaziou
<mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> Of course \[ 1+1 \] is valid LaTeX syntax, just as inline
>> \begin{displaymath} 1+1 \end{displaymath} is valid.
>
> But \begin{displaymath} 1+1 \end{displaymath} isn't valid in an Org
> paragraph.
>
>> In my opinion a construct which will be displayed on a line by itself
>> and with some space separating it from the preceding and the following
>> text lines such as "\[ ... \]" would be better represented as a
>> latex-environment and not an inline latex-fragment. In this way the
>> org-mode text representation with proper fill-paragraph handling would
>> be much more readable and consistent with the meaning of the syntax
>> that it borrowed.
>
> That would prevent \[...\] to be recognized within a paragraph, as in
> the example above. I don't think it's worth removing it as long as there
> is a latex-environment alternative for it.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 13:04 Bug: wrong interpretation of LaTeX [8.2.6 (8.2.6-47-ge3d2c1-elpa @ c:/Users/beffa/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20140526/)] Federico Beffa
2014-07-25 18:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-25 20:39   ` Federico Beffa
2014-07-26  8:26     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-26  9:20       ` Federico Beffa [this message]
2014-07-27  9:27         ` Federico Beffa
2014-07-27 16:46           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-28 11:16             ` Federico Beffa
2014-07-28 12:03               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-07-27 11:36       ` Bastien

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