Re: LaTeX math export problems

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Nick Higham <highamnj@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought this might be to do with something in my .emacs, but the same
> problem happens with a bare bones Emacs. A simple example is this file:
>
> #################################################################
> # ex1a_bad.org
> \[
>      \widehat{y} = f(x+\widehat{x}) + \Delta y,
>      \quad |\widehat{y}| \le \epsilon |y|, \;
>            |\widehat{x}| \le \epsilon |x|
> \]
> #################################################################

In Org, \[...\] is inline markup, so it is weaker than tables.
Therefore, Org cannot see your LaTeX environment. You can use

  \begin{equation*}
  ...
  \end{equation*}

instead and lift the ambiguity.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou