Re: MathJax support in texi2any

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 07:21:22PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > People might also put other Texinfo commands inside the block, like
> > @sub or @sup, but that shouldn't be encouraged, as that won't work
> > with MathJax.  (Also, \mathopsup won't work with MathJax either.)
> 
> It already doesn't work for @math but we nevertheless encourage it.
> The long term solution is probably to convert to TeX/LaTeX inside
> of @math.  It seems a bit strange to me to treat @math and @displaymath
> differently in that regard.

Since @displaymath is a new command, there's no need to support @sup or
@sub inside it, whereas there are already documents using @sup inside of
@math.  It would be hard to remove support for this, but perhaps a warning
could be given, encouraging use of ^ or _ instead.