Description

Typing the "@2" into a VisualEditor math edit box results in the error message "Failed to parse (lexing error): @2".

Creating a page with the wikitext:

$@2$

results in the same error message.

However, putting

$$@2$$

in a LaTeX document simply produces "@2".

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MarkAHershberger raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
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Restricted Application added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Aklapper. Dec 4 2015, 10:01 PM

We could now add the at sign to the whitelist for allow characters, but what's the mathematical use for that?

Pkra added a subscriber: Pkra.Apr 13 2016, 8:10 AM

We could now add the at sign to the whitelist for allow characters, but what's the mathematical use for that?

Not sure if mathoid allows it but the AMScd extension (re-implementing the AMScd package for commutative diagrams) uses the @ as an active character to indicate the starting point of an arrow. See http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/2324/how-to-draw-a-commutative-diagram for some examples.

Physikerwelt triaged this task as Medium priority.May 29 2018, 2:18 PM
Pkra moved this task from Incoming to texvc on the Math board.Dec 7 2018, 11:14 AM