On Sep 15, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Christian Moe wrote: > Hi, > > $...$ may sometimes get confused with currency signs, variable names and > whatnot. > > Org-mode is sophisticated about it as long as you follow a few safeguards -- > from the Info section 11.7.3: > > 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. > > But note that MathJax, the preferred backend for math in Org's HTML exports, > does not support $...$ by default. To configure it, see: > > http://www.mathjax.org/docs/1.1/tex.html#tex-and-latex-math-delimiters
When Org exports to HTML for use with MathJax, it does convert $..$ to \(..\) to work around this. Still, parsing $...$ is much harder than parsing \(..\), so most of the time, using \(//\) will give better and more stable results with Org-mode. - Carsten
