Re: [O] Bug: wrong interpretation of LaTeX [8.2.6 (8.2.6-47-ge3d2c1-elpa @ c:/Users/beffa/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20140526/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> 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