Re: User story: typst multiline math in pandoc markdown and pandoc AST

[Guillaume Dehaene <guillaume.dehaene-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Sorry for my lack of clarity. I'm asking too many questions at the same 
time and it must be hard to follow. I should have rewritten that last email 
before sending it.

1. My question about aligned.
I see in the code that the typst reader parses typst multilines into this 
DisplayMath begin{aligned} structure.
Is that how you / the pandoc team has decided to handle multiline math in 
the future?

2. You propose to wrap align.
This is not working on my side, but I might be doing something wrong?
Here are some minimal examples:
```
$$
\begin{align}
x & = 5\\
y &= 3
\end{align}
$$
```
parses into latex as (with pandoc test.md --to latex; on pandoc 3.1.8)
```
\[
\begin{align}
x & = 5\\
y &= 3
\end{align}
\]
```
which fails to compile to pdf (with pandoc test.md --to pdf -o test.pdf
```
Error producing PDF.
! Package amsmath Error: Erroneous nesting of equation structures;
(amsmath)                trying to recover with `aligned'.

See the amsmath package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.62 \end{align}
```

removing the $$
```
\begin{align}
x & = 5\\
y &= 3
\end{align}
```
parses as is into latex and works

Am I missing something?

3. I'm surprised at how easy it actually is to write down a filter.
This is a really great feature of pandoc

Thank you for all the great work on this project, and thank you for your 
help
Best
Guillaume

On Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:27:05 PM UTC+2 John MacFarlane wrote:

>
>
> > On Oct 20, 2023, at 12:40 AM, Guillaume Dehaene <guillaum...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for your insight.
> > 
> > 1. I'm not 100% satisfied with your solution since it does not work with 
> latex environments which open math-mode (such as a align). These produce 
> errors because of the double-opening of math-mode. It's also pretty 
> cumbersome compared to usual md.
> > 
> > I see that this is how pandoc parses typst equations (I should have 
> looked!)
> > [ Math
> > DisplayMath
> > "\\begin{aligned}\n1 + 1 & = 2 \\\\\n1 + 1 & = 2\n\\end{aligned}"
> > ]
> > 
> > Is that now going to be the accepted format for multiline equations?
>
> I'm not sure I understand. This has always been possible in pandoc (and 
> LaTeX); we use it here because it's the way to get equivalent LaTeX math to 
> the typst formula.
>
>
> Side note:
>
> in pandoc you can also do
>
> $$
> \begin{align}
> x & = 5\\
> y &= 3
> \end{align}
> $$
>
> even though this isn't possible in LaTeX. Pandoc will do the right thing 
> the output format. Try it.
>
> > 2. I had overlooked the possibility of writing a filter.
> > The principle of the filter would then be:
> > 
> > parse DisplayMath
> > if there are & and/or \\ present, modify the block
> > depending on writer:
> > - latex, HTML: transform to align
> > - everything else: transform to accepted format(??) \begin{aligned}
> > 
> > Is that correct? If so, I'll start hacking at it in the near future.
>
> Yes, something like that.
>
>

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