| > Not if it's opt-in. If you opt in to math support, you use \$, but that's a choice you make. Also, you can force an opt-in to use dollar signs vs \[ and \(. How would you make it opt-in? With a pragma at the beginning of the markdown file? I don't mean that as a rhetorical question; good UX for these kinds of things is hard. > I gave the problem with that. It's not standard syntax, so markdown parsers like Pandoc stop working. And technically, that doesn't even fix anything, because someone could have been using that syntax already. It might not be common, but it isn't a foolproof fix. I think the cat is already well out of the bag with that: GitHub has supported triple-tick with the "geojson" and "topojson" tags for quite some time, choosing to render them as maps[1]. Renderers like Pandoc will handle the above gracefully by degrading to a code block, which is perfectly reasonable until they support it directly. In any case, there's precedent for it. Edit: And it looks like they do support "```math" anyways[2]. It's just not well documented, and doesn't have an inline counterpart. [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor... [2]: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor... |