Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> writes: > Of course \[ 1+1 \] is valid LaTeX syntax, just as inline > \begin{displaymath} 1+1 \end{displaymath} is valid.
But \begin{displaymath} 1+1 \end{displaymath} isn't valid in an Org paragraph. > In my opinion a construct which will be displayed on a line by itself > and with some space separating it from the preceding and the following > text lines such as "\[ ... \]" would be better represented as a > latex-environment and not an inline latex-fragment. In this way the > org-mode text representation with proper fill-paragraph handling would > be much more readable and consistent with the meaning of the syntax > that it borrowed. That would prevent \[...\] to be recognized within a paragraph, as in the example above. I don't think it's worth removing it as long as there is a latex-environment alternative for it. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou