Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> writes:
> Of course \[ 1+1 \] is valid LaTeX syntax, just as inline
> \begin{displaymath} 1+1 \end{displaymath} is valid.
But \begin{displaymath} 1+1 \end{displaymath} isn't valid in an Org
paragraph.
> In my opinion a construct which will be displayed on a line by itself
> and with some space separating it from the preceding and the following
> text lines such as "\[ ... \]" would be better represented as a
> latex-environment and not an inline latex-fragment. In this way the
> org-mode text representation with proper fill-paragraph handling would
> be much more readable and consistent with the meaning of the syntax
> that it borrowed.
That would prevent \[...\] to be recognized within a paragraph, as in
the example above. I don't think it's worth removing it as long as there
is a latex-environment alternative for it.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
