Re: [julia-users] Re: Markdown.parse question

2015-10-14 Thread j verzani
I found that I can get double dollar signs with a minor change: $$~ latex code here ~$$ A bit hacky, but \[ and \] don't work as expected, $$\n doesn't work, I can search and replace easily, and can't bring my self to have any text after my opening $$. Consistency with Pandoc would be a good th

Re: [julia-users] Re: Markdown.parse question

2015-10-14 Thread Stefan Karpinski
Scholarly Markdown uses double backticks for inline math: http://scholarlymarkdown.com/Scholarly-Markdown-Guide.html#math Has two nice properties: 1. doesn't conflict with our string interpolation syntax; 2. gracefully degrades to code markup in other Markdowns (e.g. GitHub) On Wed, Oct

[julia-users] Re: Markdown.parse question

2015-10-14 Thread Steven G. Johnson
I wish it would use the same equation syntax as pandoc and Jupyter. You need a darn good reason to be different from the dominant implementation of equations in Markdown. (And "$$ is deprecated in LaTeX is not a good enough reason. Markdown isn't LaTeX.)

[julia-users] Re: Markdown.parse question

2015-10-14 Thread j verzani
Thanks for that, it is helpful. I'm don't really like the heuristic, but it is something that can be worked with. On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 11:26:44 PM UTC-4, andy hayden wrote: > > Whether it renders as $ or $$ is inferred from the position, if it's > inline it uses $ if it's a block $$.

[julia-users] Re: Markdown.parse question

2015-10-13 Thread andy hayden
Whether it renders as $ or $$ is inferred from the position, if it's inline it uses $ if it's a block $$. julia> Markdown.latex(Markdown.parse("""\$\\sin(x)\$""")) "\$\$\\sin(x)\$\$" julia> Markdown.latex(Markdown.parse("""inline \$\\sin(x)\$""")) "inline \$\\sin(x)\$\n" https://github.com/Ju