However, I did consider whether to change the behavior of pressing ‘$’ and decided that people would probably use LaTeX more often than trying to use the dollar sign, and so was reasonably happy with that default behavior.
FWIW, I ran into the same issue with Arbital, and very quickly decided to change it to $$. Otherwise, any time you’re writing a post about money, it’s super inconvinient.
I actually had in mind the original author of the plugin, when I said whoever it was just didn’t consider it; but it’s interesting that you did think about it in this way!
It might be cool to survey current users of the site, to see what in fact are the relative prevalences of these two use cases. (Also there are lots of other similar questions I’d love to have the answers to.)
Nope, not custom-written. We are using this plugin: https://github.com/efloti/draft-js-mathjax-plugin
However, I did consider whether to change the behavior of pressing ‘$’ and decided that people would probably use LaTeX more often than trying to use the dollar sign, and so was reasonably happy with that default behavior.
FWIW, I ran into the same issue with Arbital, and very quickly decided to change it to $$. Otherwise, any time you’re writing a post about money, it’s super inconvinient.
Interesting!
I actually had in mind the original author of the plugin, when I said whoever it was just didn’t consider it; but it’s interesting that you did think about it in this way!
It might be cool to survey current users of the site, to see what in fact are the relative prevalences of these two use cases. (Also there are lots of other similar questions I’d love to have the answers to.)
Err… this seems like the kind of thing that *really* wouldn’t stand up to user testing.