Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes:
> Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Maybe the best thing to do is drop support for $...$ completely? > > We cannot do it. Otherwise, existing Org documents may be broken. > Well, and as detailed later in my mail, I meant deprecating support for $...$. But thanks for pointing this out! > >> I quote the Org mode manual section about $...$ syntax: >> >> Text within the usual LaTeX math delimiters. 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. >> >> I think this is HIGHLY confusing. I think we should write something >> along the lines: "Do not use $...$. Only for reasons of backwards >> compatibility, $...$ syntax is partly (!) supported." > > Feel free to provide a patch. I think that a change in the documentation alone is insufficient. We need to make sure that all current and future maintainers of org-latex are aware of the decision to deprecate $...$ (if we make this decision). How do we do that?
