Re: [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>>>>>> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>     > Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:
>     >> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>     >> 
>     >>> I strongly disagree with this. \[...\] is an inline element, not
>     >>> a block element. As such, it can be filled, and filling function
>     >>> should obey to the inner structure of the document.
>     >>> 
>     >>> You can use a real block element here, e.g.,
>     >>> \begin{equation*}...\end{equation*}, which will not be filled.
>     >> 
>     >> Given that \[ ... \] is an alias for \begin{equation*} ...
>     >> \end{equation*}
>
>     > This is true in LaTeX, not in Org, obviously.
>
> But shouldn't org be consistent with LaTeX. 

Org supports, as a small part of its syntax, some limited LaTeX markup.
It doesn't imply it should strive for consistency with LaTeX. Actually,
I think it's quite the opposite. Org is not a LaTeX front-end.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou