Hello,
Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> writes:
> According to the LaTeX manual and reference "LaTeX: A Document
> Preparation System", L. Lamport, \[ ... \] is a short form for a
> displaymath environment. Citing the reference:
> "... Because displayed equations are used so frequently in
> mathematics, LaTeX allows you to type \[ ... \] instead of
> \begin{displaymath} ... \end{displaymath}. ..."
>
> However, org-mode classify \[ ... \] as a latex-fragment, the same as
> \(...\). The two are however very different in LaTeX because, while
> the latter displays some mathematical expression *inline*, the former
> makes its content stand out by putting it on *its own line*.
AFAIK, LaTeX allows to inline "\[...\]" constructs, so something like
Some \[1+1\] text
is perfectly valid. Thus, I think we need to support them.
The other thing to consider is that having the same syntax for an inline
and a non-inline element could introduce some bugs (e.g. when filling
a paragraph).
OTOH, allowing inline \[...\] is pretty harmless.
> What I do not like about this is that "org-fill-paragraph" considers
> the \[ ...\] environment part of a paragraph and therefore the
> environment gets "lost" in the middle of a line.
This is a minor annoyance, indeed. However, you can use the verbose form
in this case (i.e., "\begin{displaymath}").
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
