iamcco
Inconsistent behaviour with GitHub on escaped backslashes in maths environment
Describe the bug When a double backslash is placed in a maths environment, the GitHub markdown render treats this as it would treat a normal, single backslash, whereas markdown-preview treats this as a newline.
This is a VERY niche inconsistency but it matters in my particular use-case because mdformat decides to escape all backslashes placed, including in maths environments. This can be fixed using mdformat-myst but that isn't yet published on NixOS so I can't use it (I'm attempting to get it packaged).
As issues go, this is about as low priority as they come.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Place a double backslash in a maths equation in a markdown file
- Open the preview
- See that it is treated as a newline
Expected behavior Follow GitHub's behaviour on this and treat it as a normal backslash in the maths environment.
Desktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: NixOS
