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[Frank <address@hidden>]

Hi,

Neither do I, but few usages lead me to some parsers (say on Moodle to 
generate tests), which forces \( ... \).

Best,
Frank

On 4/13/21, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   personally I write in the $$ style (e.g. in emails, of course I do not use 
> LaTeX anymore seriously :)).
>
> If you read carefully the stackexchange replys (especially those of some 
> people involved in LaTeX3) you will see that there are arguments in favour of 
> $, in particular its readability, e.g.
> ```
> |$a$| is better-to-read, not speaking about |$f(x)=(x+1)/2$ and 
> $g(x)=(x-1)^{1+x}$ are $(n+1)$-free| compared to |\(f(x)=(x+1)/2\) and 
> \(g(x)=(x-1)^{1+x}\)$ are \((n+1)\)-free|. Too many |(|s and |{|s is simply 
> too many. Dollar is well-recognizable in the code and to be honest, I have 
> never got into the problem of not-knowing whether I'm in or out of |$...$|
> ```
> Since the LaTeX exported by TeXmacs is syntactically correct (hopefully) 
> there should be no ambiguity problem, not weird redefinitions of $$.  Other 
> arguments listed there are of the kind that it is easier for tools to parse 
> the \( \) syntax, but again this does not seem to be a concern to us.
>
> I do not think we need to focus on these LaTeX details. The idea should be to 
> go away of such a mess...
>
> Best
> Max
>
>
> > On 13. Apr 2021, at 19:19, TeXmacs <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 06:39:27PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> > > I wonder whether it is possible to force TeXmacs to use \( ... \) for inline math 
> > > formulae instead of $ ... $ in LaTeX conversion? It is the ones for LaTeX: 
> > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/513 <https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/513>
> > >
> > > If it is not currently supported, I will report a bug.
> >
> > Both are correct and $ is more readable, so this is not a bug, but a feature.
> >
> > Best wishes, --Joris