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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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