Re: The less ambiguous math delimiters in tables

[Ihor Radchenko]

Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf@adamkovic.org> writes:

>> It is not just about \(...\).
>
> Of course, and I agree that a more general mechanism is needed to solve
> all precedence problems, be it in tables, or (better) in general.  But,
> as I said before, even if we had such a mechanism, it should not be
> necessary to use it for \(...\) in tables, as there is no ambiguity, and
> so no "madness", no?  Does that make sense?  Or, am I mistaken?

IMHO, making special cases just for certain types of syntax is worse
than universal approach.

Imagine that \(...\) takes precedence as you say. Then, users may look
at it and assume that everything else works the same. And get confused
when it does not. Or an opposite - get used to how the rest of markup
works just to find out that \(...\) is suddenly different.

And that it aside from complicating the parser *a lot*. It is not at all
trivial to implement what you want.

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