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Re: [O] LaTeX-export: letters after $..$ turn off math-mode
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Greg Minshall |
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Re: [O] LaTeX-export: letters after $..$ turn off math-mode |
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:51:56 -0500 |
hi. this was on the list a year ago (see below).
i'd like to plead the case of allowing the user to suppress dollar-sign
behavior (or, force dollar-signs to mean math-mode).
the main reason is convenience: when trying to quickly write up
thoughts, typing "$ a = b^2 $" is just that much more convenient/easier
than typing "\( a = b^2 \)". (maybe because the former uses half the
number of "off-home-row" keys? maybe just because my fingers are
programmed to do this?)
second, (this is rhetoric) why privilege the dollar currency? third
(more rhetoric), there are certainly many communities that believe that
$..$ is equivalent to \(..\), so new users will continually show up thus
programmed.
so, if there were a way of disabling the current dollar sign processing,
that would be great!
cheers, Greg
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-02/msg00269.html
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> Daniel Schoepe <address@hidden> writes:
>> I have the following issue: If I write something like `$n$th' in an
>> org file and then export it to LaTeX, it will produce `\$n\$th',
>> whereas I would like it to export this as `$n$th'. Is there some way
>> I can disable escaping of dollar signs entirely (Leaving it to me to
>> escape them, when I don't use them as math-mode delimiters)?
> Using proper LaTeX math delimiters instead of that TeXism works
> nicely: \(n\)th (the other TeXism, $n${}th also doesn't work). In an
> UTF-8 document, a zero-width space would probably work too, but that's
> devious.
> HTH,
> Achim.
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