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Georges Elencwajg comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14624)

Georges Elencwajg — Wed, 25 May 2011 10:49:12 -0700

Thank you all, Andrew, Anton, darij and Qiaochu. And sorry for this late acknowledgment , due to some stupid confusion on my part (I had the false memory that I had not yet asked my question!).

darijgrinberg comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14580)

darijgrinberg — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:01:18 -0700

Oh, I didn't know about

. Thanks Andrew!

Everything between backticks comes out monospaced.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14570)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:25:49 -0700

@darijgrinberg: what Andrew said. If you put the whole answer between backticks, the non-math part comes out monospaced, right?

Andrew Stacey comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14563)

Andrew Stacey — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:43:57 -0700

To get rid of all Markdown formatting, the best strategy is to enclose the paragraph/answer in

...

tags.

Qiaochu Yuan comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14559)

Qiaochu Yuan — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:03:46 -0700

Underscores (and asterisks) are parsed as MarkDown; they're both syntax for italics, and our rendering engine parses MarkDown before LaTeX. Escaping them with backslash, as in _, should fix it (and if not try the backticks).

darijgrinberg comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14557)

darijgrinberg — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:01:54 -0700

Because markdown interprets two _ signs as italics. That's the reason I have put some of my answers in backticks completely, as I grew tired of backticking every single formula.

Georges Elencwajg comments on "Once works and twice fails" (14556)

Georges Elencwajg — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:48:27 -0700

If I type [ $k[x]_{x}$] , it renders as expected.But if I type[ $k[x]_{x}$ is $k[x]_{x}$], the rendering is completely botched.
Could somebody please explain what is going on? Sorry if this has already been mentioned.