Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: > FWIW I'm not in favor of removing the ability to inline $x^2$ > and to deprecate the use of $ completely. If this flexibility > is not too problematic (from a maintainance point of view), I'd > say it's fine to keep it.
While I agree that \(·\) is the preferred and Rightᵀᴹ delimiter pair I almost always use $·$ in place if I can get away with it. Thus, if the maintenance cost is low I would prefer if it stayed. Using the patch posted by Nicolas last week (i.e. (re)introducing org-highlight-latex-and-special) there's even visual feedback as to when Org will correctly identify $·$. /If/ a mechanism existed to easily use \(·\) I would be all for ditching $·$ as it clearly inferior (legacy documents can quickly be fixed via a regexp replacement, if needed). For instance, in ESS there is ess-smart-underscore where, depending on the context, pressing "_" will usually do the right thing. For Instance $ could insert \(·\) or $ first (depending on the variable org-export-care-about-usd). On region it would always put it inside \(·\). But it might be messy, I'm not really sure. –Rasmus -- C is for Cookie
