From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Minshall Subject: Re: LaTeX-export: letters after $..$ turn off math-mode Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:51:56 -0500 Message-ID: <85272.1359978716@greg-minshalls-mbp.local> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U2Kai-00049S-PY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:52:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U2Kae-0003f1-C6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:52:04 -0500 Received: from relay01.pair.com ([209.68.5.15]:3672) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U2Kae-0003ei-4s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:52:00 -0500 Received: from greg-minshalls-mbp.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gregair.cliq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FBA640354A for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 06:51:56 -0500 (EST) 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 hi. this was on the list a year ago (see below). i'd like to plead the case of allowing the user to suppress dollar-sign behavior (or, force dollar-signs to mean math-mode). the main reason is convenience: when trying to quickly write up thoughts, typing "$ a = b^2 $" is just that much more convenient/easier than typing "\( a = b^2 \)". (maybe because the former uses half the number of "off-home-row" keys? maybe just because my fingers are programmed to do this?) second, (this is rhetoric) why privilege the dollar currency? third (more rhetoric), there are certainly many communities that believe that $..$ is equivalent to \(..\), so new users will continually show up thus programmed. so, if there were a way of disabling the current dollar sign processing, that would be great! cheers, Greg ---- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-02/msg00269.html ---- > Daniel Schoepe writes: >> I have the following issue: If I write something like `$n$th' in an >> org file and then export it to LaTeX, it will produce `\$n\$th', >> whereas I would like it to export this as `$n$th'. Is there some way >> I can disable escaping of dollar signs entirely (Leaving it to me to >> escape them, when I don't use them as math-mode delimiters)? > Using proper LaTeX math delimiters instead of that TeXism works > nicely: \(n\)th (the other TeXism, $n${}th also doesn't work). In an > UTF-8 document, a zero-width space would probably work too, but that's > devious. > HTH, > Achim.