Re: [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 03/10/2021 00:51, Tom Gillespie wrote:
>> do not see a reason for idiosyncrasy that markup intended to add LaTeX
>> snippet that looks like exactly as LaTeX commands for this purpose and
>> even actually preserved during export to LaTeX should have different
>> semantics for Org parser.
> 
> The answer is that \[ \] can only occur inside paragraphs.

Nicolas mentioned that meaning of \[ \] might be changed and that will 
allow among other things correctly working of paragraph filling. I like 
such idea.

> Org gives
> us a bit more power, but not the full power because Org is Org, not
> Latex.

There is \( \) object for inline math. Is there use cases for 2 
(actually 2 groups of 2 elements counting $...$ and $$...$$) variants 
for inline math when primary backend for them behaves differently?

> Making \[ \] available outside of a paragraph would be a massive
> breaking change.

Is it really breaking? I can not estimate required amount of work to 
implement it. However at the user side at first glance most of files 
should remain valid and I could not imagine markup that will be broken 
during export to LaTeX.

> I guess one thing I'm missing/not understanding is when/why people
> want to use \[ \] instead of full #+begin_export latex block?

For example, because document without equations may become almost 
useless in the case of export to HTML or ODT file.