On 2014-11-12, at 07:05, Nick Dokos wrote: > Marcin Borkowski <mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes: > >> Hi list, >> >> I have this: „$n\eps\le b$”, and it seems not to be recognized as a >> LaTeX fragment. The manual says: >> >> ================ >> 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. >> ================ >> >> When I C-u C-x = on the closing quote, I get >> >> ================ >> ... >> syntax: . which means: punctuation >> ... >> ================ >> >> so I don't know why it is not recognized as punctuation. Consequently, >> it is exported verbatim (with `\$') into LaTeX, and also (obviously) C-c >> C-x C-l does not fontify it. When I change ” into " (the ASCII #x22 >> quote), everything is ok. >> > > The $...$ construct is recognized by a regexp which, while complicated, > is not complicated enough to recognize everything that's marked > "punctuation" in the syntax tables. Look for org-latex-regexps in org.el > (and note that the regexp for "$" is about twice as long as the next > longest regexp - the one for "begin"). The others (for \(...\), \[...\] > and $$..$$) are fairly trivial. > >> My questions: >> >> 1. Isn't it a bug? >> > > Yes, probably - but looking at the regexp, I cringe: I don't want to even > try deciphering it, let alone change it - life's too short...
Ah, regex. I have no more questions... >> 2. If not, what can I do to in my config so that it is recognized >> properly? >> >> PS. I just recalled that using \(...\) should help, and indeed it does. >> Still, I'm curious about the answer to my questions (now that I >> remembered a workaround, especially #1). >> > That is indeed the best solution. Yep. Thanks! -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
