Math on GitHub: Following Up

Re:Math on GitHub: Following Up by nschloe on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:17AM (#31908824)

Well, it _is_ (La)TeX syntax. With the exception that there, if you want a dollar sign, you have to type \$. But yeah, the syntax isn't made for Markdown.

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Re:Math on GitHub: Following Up by remram on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:23AM (#31908909)

I think the problem is the change. You didn't need \$ before, and now people's files are broken.

GitHub could have run their parser on a sample of existing Markdown file and check that the output doesn't change. They have such a huge corpus, with author date info, it is so easy to test that files authored before the feature don't trigger the feature.

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