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.
