Re: [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations

[Tom Gillespie]

> do not see a reason for idiosyncrasy that markup intended to add LaTeX
> snippet that looks like exactly as LaTeX commands for this purpose and
> even actually preserved during export to LaTeX should have different
> semantics for Org parser.

The answer is that \[ \] can only occur inside paragraphs. The issues
here are exactly the same as the issues for inline footnotes. Org gives
us a bit more power, but not the full power because Org is Org, not
Latex. Making \[ \] available outside of a paragraph would be a massive
breaking change.

In Timothy's original example he is narrowly skirting the syntax to
allow that all to remain a single paragraph, but stick in a newline
anywhere and boom, no more paragraph, no more equation.

I guess one thing I'm missing/not understanding is when/why people
want to use \[ \] instead of full #+begin_export latex block?

Best,
Tom