Hi,yesterday an issue with $n$-th TeX markup was risen again. I think, the manual should not declare that it is supported. It is broken for a decade. So \(n\)-th should be suggested instead.
From 6feb228a1bcc485441bab707771e6d87a3d69671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:08:37 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] org-manual.org: $n$-th is not math MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
* doc/org-manual.org (LaTeX fragments): Do not state that dash is allowed after single "$" math delimiter and recommend "\(...\)". Detection of "$-" as closing math delimiters is broken since 2015 as a side effect of using punctuation class in regular expressions while dash is considered as a word constituent. See commits 6779f8f424 and c0369a7984. Bring the manual in accordance to the code instead of allowing "($-2 change)" false positives. Users who do not like "\(...\)" constructs may use a helper for typing it and may change how it is displayed to minimize visual noise by fontification, see - Eric S Fraga to emacs-orgmode. Re: Depreciating TeX-style LaTeX fragments. Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:10:30 +0000. <https://list.orgmode.org/87k0ezdgp5....@ucl.ac.uk> - Ihor Radchenko to emacs-orgmode. Re: [PATCH] Add support for $…$ latex fragments followed by a dash. Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:28:10 +0800. <https://list.orgmode.org/87r18t7fc5.fsf@localhost> --- doc/org-manual.org | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org index 1c97d6aa8..7bb1ac637 100644 --- a/doc/org-manual.org +++ b/doc/org-manual.org @@ -11152,14 +11152,14 @@ *** LaTeX fragments =\begin= statement appears on a new line, preceded by only whitespace. -- Text within the usual LaTeX math delimiters. To avoid conflicts - with currency specifications, single =$= characters are only - recognized as math delimiters if the enclosed text contains at most - two line breaks, is directly attached to the =$= characters with no - whitespace in between, and if the closing =$= is followed by - whitespace, punctuation or a dash. For the other delimiters, there - is no such restriction, so when in doubt, use =\(...\)= as inline - math delimiters. +- Text within the usual LaTeX math delimiters. Prefer =\(...\)= for + inline snippets. The =$...$= alternative has some restrictions and + may be source of confusion. To avoid conflicts with currency + specifications, single =$= characters are only recognized as math + delimiters if the enclosed text contains at most two line breaks, is + directly attached to the =$= characters with no whitespace in + between, and if the closing =$= is followed by whitespace or + punctuation (but not a dash). #+texinfo: @noindent For example: -- 2.25.1
