Re: Bug: Math mode doesn't work if followed by a dash [9.4 (nil @ /home/gutin/.emacs.d/.local/straight/build/org-mode/)]

[Richard Lawrence]

"Berry, Charles" <ccberry@health.ucsd.edu> writes:

> The case Gutin describes conforms to the documentation, viz. `$x\beta$-` 
> should produce math mode LaTeX as I read the next paragraph. 
>
> From (info "(org) LaTeX fragments"):
>
>    • Text within the usual LaTeX math delimiters.  To avoid conflicts
>      with currency specifications, single ‘$’ characters are only
>      recognized as math delimiters if the enclosed text contains at most
>      two line breaks, is directly attached to the ‘$’ characters with no
>      whitespace in between, and if the closing ‘$’ is followed by
>      whitespace, punctuation or a dash.

Hmm, good point.

It looks to me like the relevant function is
org-element-latex-fragment-parser, and the code for that hasn't changed
much in several years (last change was 2017). (Also, I was wrong,
parsing latex fragments is not done with just a regexp.) I can confirm
that this function parses "$foo" in "$foo$ bar" as a latex fragment, but
not in "$foo$-bar"

Not sure if the problem here is the code or the documentation. Perhaps
the documentation should be updated to reflect the current behavior?

-- 
Best,
Richard