Re: The org--math-p advice around texmathp

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Tony Zorman <tony.zorman@tu-dresden.de> writes:

> I recently stumbled upon the fact that Org has some around advice for
> texmathp: org--math-p. For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me,
> this has some special handling for cdlatex-math-symbol, and recognises
> display and inline maths environments on its own, only calling out to
> texmathp if it could not find anything. In the former cases, it also
> populates the texmathp-why variable, although the position is just
> filled in with 0.
>
> I suppose my succinct question is: why? Is there any advantage in
> handling inline and display maths in this way, only deferring to
> texmathp as a last resort? I'm asking because I wrote a small package to
> switch between environments, and the position information that
> texmathp-why provides is very useful in choosing the closest
> environment.

Because Org mode syntax is not LaTeX and `texmathp' assumes that we are inside
LaTeX buffer. So, we first check using Org syntax whether the point is
inside latex fragment in Org sense.

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