Math & Science ⇒ Dollar sign code

[tkojar]

Hello
As most you can relate I find it very annoying that I have to type the dollar sign in my math text after I am done writing.So I am wondering if anyone has come up with a code that automatically puts the dollar sign when math lines are present in tex files.
Thank you,Tomas

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Tomas,

welcome to the board!

I'm not aware of any general solution. I know, that (if configured) TeX tries to switch the mode, even if displaying an error, when it encounters math mode control sequences. However, when should it switch back to text mode, in a reliable way? Letters can be variables, or products of variables, when would you decide that normal text starts?

I think delimiters for math mode are still required to distinguish modes. For example, a - in math mode (a minus) is not the same as a - in text mode (a dash), which has a different width.

Stefan

[cgnieder]

Not that it would be less typing but I always type in both $ when writing inline math and then go back with left arrow key (or whatever it is correctly called...). This way I don't forget it.

Regards

[localghost]

Not that it would be less typing but I always type in both $ when writing inline math and then go back with left arrow key (or whatever it is correctly called...). This way I don't forget it. […]

I am used to proceed this way with ever kind of delimiter. So I rarely have problems with forgotten braces or similar stuff. But common editors support to keep track of delimiters by highlighting the content between them as soon as the cursor is placed correspondingly.


Thorsten

[cgnieder]

Me too, actually. I don't switch between editors often but I believe there should be enough which also highlight maths differently than text (like kile or kate). I find that also very helpful.

Regards