> 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. The issues here are exactly the same as the issues for inline footnotes. Org gives us a bit more power, but not the full power because Org is Org, not Latex. Making \[ \] available outside of a paragraph would be a massive breaking change. In Timothy's original example he is narrowly skirting the syntax to allow that all to remain a single paragraph, but stick in a newline anywhere and boom, no more paragraph, no more equation. I guess one thing I'm missing/not understanding is when/why people want to use \[ \] instead of full #+begin_export latex block? Best, Tom
