Re: The less ambiguous math delimiters in tables

[Ihor Radchenko]

Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf@adamkovic.org> writes:

>> Maybe, but it is also much more complex in terms of parser.
>> Backtracking will introduce non-linear complexity to the parser,
>> degrading the performance significantly.
>
> Is that so?  I thought it is all about simple precedence rules.  In this
> case, once the parser finds the opening \(, it interprets everything as
> LaTeX, until it finds the closing \).

Yes, it is. Please check how Org parser works in
`org-element--parse-elements' and `org-element--parse-objects'.

>> We cannot change it at this point without breaking all the historical
>> documents + third-party parsers. That's why I am talking about
>> providing markup extension to address the issue rather than altering
>> the existing parser fundamentals.
>
> It would only break the documents that have one-sided \( or \) in the
> cells of the same column, no?  And that is ... virtually never?

In a theoretical case if we agree to what you are suggesting, it should
not be just for tables. There are similar cases with other markup, like

 *foo =* *= bar*

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