Scholarly Markdown uses double backticks for inline math:

http://scholarlymarkdown.com/Scholarly-Markdown-Guide.html#math

Has two nice properties:

   1. doesn't conflict with our string interpolation syntax;
   2. gracefully degrades to code markup in other Markdowns (e.g. GitHub)


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I wish it would use the same equation syntax as pandoc and Jupyter. You
> need a darn good reason to be different from the dominant implementation of
> equations in Markdown.
>
> (And "$$ is deprecated in LaTeX is not a good enough reason. Markdown
> isn't LaTeX.)

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