Re: Inequalities in math blocks

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 05/10/2021 14:55, Rudolf Adamkovič wrote:
> Timothy writes:
> 
>> You’re going to be much better off if you just use LaTeX math 
>> delimiters, i.e. `\( ... \)'.
> 
> Interesting. It works, but I do not understand why!

Did you inspect HTML file? Playing with export, I do not see real 
difference. Result is "\(1<2\)" even for $1<2$.

info "(org) LaTeX fragments" https://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-fragments.html
highlight some issues with $:
>  To avoid conflicts with currency specifications, single ‘$’ 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.

> Do we consider 
> inequalities in $$ breaking HTML export expected behavior? Or, do we 
> consider it a bug? I suppose there exists no formal specification, 
> executable or not, to answer the question?

Tom Gillespie mentioned in another thread yesterday:

https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html#Entities_and_LaTeX_Fragments
>     It would introduce incompatibilities with previous Org versions, but
> support for $...$ (and for symmetry, $$...$$) constructs ought to be
> removed.
> 
>     They are slow to parse, fragile, redundant and imply false
> positives. — ngz