Tony Zorman <tony.zor...@tu-dresden.de> writes: > I recently stumbled upon the fact that Org has some around advice for > texmathp: org--math-p. For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, > this has some special handling for cdlatex-math-symbol, and recognises > display and inline maths environments on its own, only calling out to > texmathp if it could not find anything. In the former cases, it also > populates the texmathp-why variable, although the position is just > filled in with 0. > > I suppose my succinct question is: why? Is there any advantage in > handling inline and display maths in this way, only deferring to > texmathp as a last resort? I'm asking because I wrote a small package to > switch between environments, and the position information that > texmathp-why provides is very useful in choosing the closest > environment.
Because Org mode syntax is not LaTeX and `texmathp' assumes that we are inside LaTeX buffer. So, we first check using Org syntax whether the point is inside latex fragment in Org sense. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
