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

[Max Nikulin]

On 25/02/2024 17:41, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > Max Nikulin writes:

> > > So `shell-quote-argument' is necessary and quotes around %i must be
> > > stripped similar to %s in mailcap entries in `org-open-file'.
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> Please, revert the commit that added a misleading recommendation.
...
> It should be more reliable to pass fragment to command stdin. It can be 
> done if %i is missed in `org-latex-to-html-convert-command'.

I have realized that there is `org-latex-to-mathml-convert-command' 
introduced a decade earlier and affected by the same issue with possible 
leak of formula to shell command. Even if there are reasons against 
obsoleting `org-latex-to-html-convert-command' in favor of 
`org-latex-to-mathml-convert-command', both user options should be 
handled by the same function.

I am unsure if it is an intended feature that when an org file is opened 
from a remote location like /ssh:... then 
`org-latex-to-html-convert-command' is executed on the remote host. It 
makes implementation of stdin more tricky. Ideally, it should be 
configurable where the command is executed: where emacs is running, 
where the document resides, or even with specific `default-directory'.

Double quotes are recommended around %i for ODT export
(info "(org) LaTeX math snippets")
https://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-math-snippets.html
and it should be fixed as well.

It seems --preload=siunitx.sty should be recommended any more for latexml:
https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML/issues/2268
Problem width loading expl3-code.tex

Perhaps at least some cases may be handled by pandoc
https://list.orgmode.org/CAEPTPEzvx5ZhY5qrCJnFtAC_NpPC9d1a-Q=yE+XNTrPXiMpTag@mail.gmail.com/
David Lukeš. Using pandoc to convert LaTeX math to MathML
Tue, 1 Mar 2022 15:59:36 +0100

Unfortunately I am not familiar with MathML enough to evaluate that 
there are no caveats with pandoc.