Re: Warn about shell-expansion in the docstring of org-latex-to-html-convert-command

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 19/02/2024 02:36, Martin Edström wrote:
>> +Since this is a shell-command, remember to use single-quotes
>> +around \\='%i\\=', not double-quotes!  Else a math fragment such
>> +as \"$y = 200$\" gets butchered into only \" = 200\"."
>
> I am afraid, the code, not the docstring must be fixed. I have not tried 
> it, but I expect an issue with
>
>      Test \(f' = df/dx\)
>
> So `shell-quote-argument' is necessary and quotes around %i must be 
> stripped similar to %s in mailcap entries in `org-open-file'.

That would be backwards-incompatible.
What about introducing %e replacement that will be shell-escaped?

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