hi. this was on the list a year ago (see below). i'd like to plead the case of allowing the user to suppress dollar-sign behavior (or, force dollar-signs to mean math-mode).
the main reason is convenience: when trying to quickly write up thoughts, typing "$ a = b^2 $" is just that much more convenient/easier than typing "\( a = b^2 \)". (maybe because the former uses half the number of "off-home-row" keys? maybe just because my fingers are programmed to do this?) second, (this is rhetoric) why privilege the dollar currency? third (more rhetoric), there are certainly many communities that believe that $..$ is equivalent to \(..\), so new users will continually show up thus programmed. so, if there were a way of disabling the current dollar sign processing, that would be great! cheers, Greg ---- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-02/msg00269.html ---- > Daniel Schoepe <address@hidden> writes: >> I have the following issue: If I write something like `$n$th' in an >> org file and then export it to LaTeX, it will produce `\$n\$th', >> whereas I would like it to export this as `$n$th'. Is there some way >> I can disable escaping of dollar signs entirely (Leaving it to me to >> escape them, when I don't use them as math-mode delimiters)? > Using proper LaTeX math delimiters instead of that TeXism works > nicely: \(n\)th (the other TeXism, $n${}th also doesn't work). In an > UTF-8 document, a zero-width space would probably work too, but that's > devious. > HTH, > Achim.