Re: [PATCH] Wrap LaTeX snippets in $$ with markdown export

[Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

>> Should one want to convert LaTeX images say to an SVG for HTML export, I
>> do not think one would want this behaviour to also apply to LaTeX being
>> exported to markdown.
>
> Why do you think so? This is consistent with everything else not
> supported by vanilla Markdown.

To speak personally, at the moment I use mathjax for HTML. I'm quite
content with the markdown output from this patch without what's
discussed below.
However, if/when I can get the SVG baseline to work with dvisvgm I plan
on switching to that for HTML files. However, I'd consider this
behaviour undesirable for markdown.

The main reason why I'm hesitant about including <img>s in Markdown, is
because unlike <table> etc. the output now relies on external files.

>> As such I see two 'sensible' paths forward: (1) just include LaTeX
>> verbatim when :with-latex is non-nil, or (2) introduce
>> `org-markdown-with-latex' which can be set to t/'verbatim or 'html.
>>
> Obeying to :with-latex property means "ox-md" is somehow actively
> handling LaTeX fragments, which was not the initial intent, IIUC. The
> first idea was to provide a sensible default for such objects, because
> we're outside the specification anyway. I'd rather not overdo it.

I'm happy to strip this out of the patch (there's always advice for my
own config...), I just thought there may be people who like me are
interested in <img>s for LaTeX in HTML, but not in Markdown.

--
Timothy