On May 7, 11:25 am, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 7, 11:12 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > (For what it's worth, I've seen LaTeX gurus complain that one should
> > > not use $$ $$ for displaying math; \[ \] is better. Should the
> > > default value of 'sep' be changed?)
>
> > Why? I think \[ and \] are ugly and hard to type compared to $$'s. What
> > makes them so much better?
>
> > -- William
>
> In the newsgroup comp.text.tex, people like Heiko Oberdiek (who I
> believe is a LaTeX expert) often says things like this, when people
> post sample code using $$ $$:
>
> No, no, no, use never $$ in LaTeX.
> (Spacing is wrong, fleqn is not working, ...)
>
> I haven't successfully been able to search for '$$ $$' in that
> newsgroup to find definitive descriptions of what's wrong. Also, for
> what 'view' does, perhaps the difference between '$$ $$' and '\[ \]'
> doesn't really matter. I may try to find out exactly what the problem
> with '$$ $$' is, and get back to you.
There's a thread now going in comp.text.tex called "what's wrong with $
$ in LaTeX" which has some (somewhat cryptic) replies. I'll try to
post a link to it on Google groups:
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/
thread/9488e9105a61c2c8#">http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/
browse_frm/thread/9488e9105a61c2c8#</a>
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