On Sat, Mar 16 2024 10:07, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > In Org mode, there is a significant difference between \alpha and > \(\alpha\). The former is natively fontified (with `org-pretty-entities' > set to t) and natively exported to HTML/ASCII/ODT/etc. In contrast, > \(\alpha\) is very generic and Org mode has to invoke LaTeX, and > transform the contents into an image to render it. This includes export. > > So, plain \alpha entity is generally more universal when in Org mode.
That's fair enough, I didn't know about org-pretty-entities! I guess for me org-cdlatex-mode was always something to insert *LaTeX* in Org, and not arbitrary Unicode (especially since there's currently no check in place that verifies whether the entered symbol can actually be rendered correctly via org-pretty-entities and cdlatex-math-symbol can insert arbitrary LaTeX code) > Further on the topic of the advice, the original texmathp has no idea > about Org-mode's syntax. If you have something like > > Verbatim text: =\(= followed by \alpha \) > > Then, (texmathp) will return non-nil on "\alpha" disregarding Org mode's > syntax. Ah indeed, this is a good point. I guess I would wish for more granular advice, but I recognise the difficulty in getting this exactly right. Thanks for your patience! Tony -- Tony Zorman | https://tony-zorman.com/
