<story><title>Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code</title><url>https://github.com/goessner/mdmath</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wangchow</author><text>Very awesome. However, the $ signs indicate financial stuff. It would be nice to have a different delimiter like the code blocks use back-tics. For example using back-ticks couple with single-quotes? It doesn&amp;#x27;t work since it clash with the code block just for example more legible:&lt;p&gt;`&amp;#x27; x^2 + 4&lt;i&gt;x + 4 &amp;#x27;`&lt;p&gt;Remember: the whole idea behind markdown is it should be &lt;/i&gt;first and foremost* legible from plain-text. One idea behind typography is it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be noticed at all to the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuffedBelly</author><text>&amp;quot;$&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;$$&amp;quot; to be exact) is actually used in TeX to indicate opening and closing of statements&amp;#x2F;mathematical expressions. I think the author of this project is trying to conform to TeX syntax as much as possible so that TeX users like me would feel at home :).</text></comment>
<story><title>Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code</title><url>https://github.com/goessner/mdmath</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wangchow</author><text>Very awesome. However, the $ signs indicate financial stuff. It would be nice to have a different delimiter like the code blocks use back-tics. For example using back-ticks couple with single-quotes? It doesn&amp;#x27;t work since it clash with the code block just for example more legible:&lt;p&gt;`&amp;#x27; x^2 + 4&lt;i&gt;x + 4 &amp;#x27;`&lt;p&gt;Remember: the whole idea behind markdown is it should be &lt;/i&gt;first and foremost* legible from plain-text. One idea behind typography is it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be noticed at all to the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rchowe</author><text>MathJax by default doesn&amp;#x27;t use $ as a delimiter for inline equations, but instead uses \( and \) to avoid confusion with monetary quantities. Perhaps a similar thing could be done.</text></comment>