From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: plus in superscript. Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:44:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <18354.1316019331@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <424.1316071148@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <4E71ACBD.9030102@christianmoe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R46d3-0002B8-Vk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:45:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R46cx-0000Bu-Gx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:45:01 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:64291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R46cx-0000Bg-BX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:44:55 -0400 Received: by eye13 with SMTP id 13so458232eye.0 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:44:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E71ACBD.9030102@christianmoe.com> 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: mail@christianmoe.com Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Piter_ On Sep 15, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Christian Moe wrote: > Hi, >=20 > $...$ may sometimes get confused with currency signs, variable names = and whatnot. >=20 > Org-mode is sophisticated about it as long as you follow a few = safeguards -- from the Info section 11.7.3: >=20 > To avoid conflicts > with currency specifications, single `$' characters are only > recognized as math delimiters if the enclosed text contains at > most two line breaks, is directly attached to the `$' characters > with no whitespace in between, and if the closing `$' is followed > by whitespace, punctuation or a dash. For the other delimiters, > there is no such restriction, so when in doubt, use `\(...\)' as > inline math delimiters. >=20 > But note that MathJax, the preferred backend for math in Org's HTML = exports, does not support $...$ by default. To configure it, see: >=20 > http://www.mathjax.org/docs/1.1/tex.html#tex-and-latex-math-delimiters When Org exports to HTML for use with MathJax, it does convert $..$ to = \(..\) to work around this. Still, parsing $...$ is much harder than parsing \(..\), so most of the = time, using \(//\) will give better and more stable results with = Org-mode. - Carsten=