Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > Your example shows ambiguous markup that can be > interpreted in multiple ways: > > 1. <begin cell> \(<end cell><begin cell>x<end cell><begin cell>\) <end cell> > 2. <begin cell> <begin latex>|x|<end latex> <end cell> > > Org parser chooses one. It has to choose some. > Org parser also chooses a simpler interpretation that does not require > backtracking.
But (2) is a *much, much, much* better choice (for the user). How often does a table row contain - a sole '\(` in one cell and - a sole '\)` in another cell? Virtually never [excluding verbatim/code, which is a different problem.] How often does LaTeX include `|'? Often: - absolute value, - parallel lines, - vector length, - set cardinality, - various norms, on and on. The use starts at elementary school level, so it is like Org reserving the minus sign in LaTeX for itself, which would be a similar usability disaster. Rudy -- "It is no paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications." --- Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947 Rudolf Adamkovič <rud...@adamkovic.org> [he/him] http://adamkovic.org
