The LaTeX syntax for comments is indeed to wrap it in $ .
You might have to refresh for the editor change to take effect. The correct behavior should be that it displays you a small warning at the top, with the option of switching the editor to your preferred editor and doing some data conversions in the process (though those data conversions don’t properly process LaTeX, so that experiment wouldn’t have helped you figure out the markdown LaTeX syntax).
The LaTeX syntax for comments is indeed to wrap it in
$
.You might have to refresh for the editor change to take effect. The correct behavior should be that it displays you a small warning at the top, with the option of switching the editor to your preferred editor and doing some data conversions in the process (though those data conversions don’t properly process LaTeX, so that experiment wouldn’t have helped you figure out the markdown LaTeX syntax).