Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Re:Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by hprotagonist on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:10AM (#31457560)

you can do both, the normal markdown way:

  `$a$` squared is `$a^2$`, which is good to know for the pythagorean theorem:
  ```equation
  a^2+b^2\eq c^2
  ```

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Re:Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by IshKebab on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:55PM (#31459527)

That doesn't work because then how do you display $a$ as literal inline code?

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Re:Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by runarberg on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:22PM (#31459841)

What about:

    Inline code is ` $a$ ` automatically trimmed

But I think $`a+b`$ makes more sense (or even $$a+b$$; I mean this is markdown after all, not LaTeX).

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Re:Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by JadeNB on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:09PM (#31461349)

> But I think $`a+b`$ makes more sense (or even $$a+b$$; I mean this is markdown after all, not LaTeX).

True, but it is TeX notation, and `$$ $$` for inline math goes deeply against the experienced TeXnician's intuition. Why intentionally use notation that violates some users' domain intuition when there's an alternative that's no worse?

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Re:Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by ly on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:26AM (#31457683)

Ah yes, agreed, then that does indeed seem like to optimal solution here.

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