It's not a bug.
> I find that a mathmode environment, bounded by $..$, that breaks across
> line boundaries, is not typeset correctly.
It just happens to work most of the times. Use \(.\) when in doubt.
> I am attaching a minimal example org-file.
> When I type a lot of text in front of the mathmode so that the mathmode breaks
> across a line boundary, I find that it is not typeset properly as here: $(1
> - \nu)$
but
$(1
x -\nu)$
would work. -/+ is being picked up because it starts a list.
Hope this helps,
Rasmus
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