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## Re: [O] math in parentheses

 From: Rasmus Subject: Re: [O] math in parentheses Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:24:40 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.3.94 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

> See
>
>
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/510/are-and-preferable-to-dollar-signs-for-math-mode
>
> for some arguments for and (mostly) against (although one of the "for"s
> is Frank Mittelbach - which surely tilts the scale quite a lot). FWIW,
> I've trained myself to use $$...$$ and don't find it any harder to read
> than $...$ - and I don't mind the extra typing either.  The fact that
> both org and MathJax deal better with $$...$$ just reinforces that
> choice.

Note that,

(with-temp-buffer (insert "$x$") (require 'ox-latex)
(org-latex-export-as-latex nil nil nil t)) => $$x$$

Just out of curiosity, do you actually type $$·$$ or have you somehow
remapped $·$ to insert $$·$$?

For me the biggest inconvenience of $$·$$ is that it's tedious to
type.  On my keyboard, M-< S-8 M-< gives me , compare to M-4 M-4
(which I could probably limit to M-4 with electric-pair-mode).  Thus,
I use $·$ by default.

I usually just rely on whether my expression get the colored by
org-latex-and-related.  In most cases that's a good indicator, but it
does not work with ($x$).

—Rasmus

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