On Sunday, 4 Aug 2019 at 08:31, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
> Can someone explain why the single '$' characters below are not
> recognized as math delimiters?
>
> a /complex number/ $z = a + ib,$ where
What are you expecting? What happens if you export the file to PDF?
By the way, you might be interested in the following configuration
snippet which makes org insert \(\) when you type a single $ (and a $ if
you type 2 of them in a row).
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle "esf-org.el"
;; from Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr>
;; Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:23:02 +0100
;; Message-ID: <87vc913oh5....@yahoo.fr>
(defun yf/org-electric-dollar nil
"When called once, insert \\(\\) and leave point in between.
When called twice, replace the previously inserted \\(\\) by one $."
(interactive)
(if (and (looking-at "\\\\)") (looking-back "\\\\("))
(progn (delete-char 2)
(delete-char -2)
(insert "$"))
(insert "\\(\\)")
(backward-char 2)))
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "$") 'yf/org-electric-dollar)
#+end_src
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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.4-399-g4e6222
