Escape math environments

[tristone13th]

It will parse the backslash '\' in $...$ or $$...$$ thus make the math parsing failed, is there any method to escape the parsing actions inside the math environments?

[gjtorikian]

What pipeline are you using to convert math environments? What does the text look like? Escaping the backslash with a backslash (eg. \\text{}) should work, but I would need more details.

[tristone13th]

What pipeline are you using to convert math environments? What does the text look like? Escaping the backslash with a backslash (eg. \\text{}) should work, but I would need more details.

I'm using jekyll-commonmark-ghpages to parse my markdown files in my blog. It seems to have some small pitfalls when it encounters backslash in the markdown file. Specifically, it always eliminates the backslash in the file and doesn't care about the position and the context such as math block. For example, when I write this math block segment:

$$
\left\{
\begin{aligned}
\frac{w^\intercal x+b}{\|w^\intercal\|} & > d^{w,b} &, y=1 \\
\frac{w^\intercal x+b}{\|w^\intercal\|} & < -d^{w,b} &,  y=-1 \\
\end{aligned}
\right .
$$

it will automatically replace the \{ with { and make the math interpretation failed, how to avoid this?

[gjtorikian]

Try entering \\{ and see if that retains the text. I think you'll need to escape the backslash.

[tristone13th]

Try entering \\{ and see if that retains the text. I think you'll need to escape the backslash.

Thanks, I think it would be ok but will break the math interpretation on other markdown editors, I will try to find another way to avoid this.

[gjtorikian]

Sorry I cannot be of more help.