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I sometimes attempt to use $\mathcal{MathJax}$ to write string-literals wrapped in quotes.

I expected the rendered result to look like this:

a pretty set of strings

Instead the result was this:

picture of stuff which is half referred in mono-spaced fixed width teletype font and the other half is renders as MathJax stuff

For example, we might have the following markdown for a stack exchange posting:

Let $A$ be the set $\{ ``\mathtt{CAT}", ``\mathtt{CONCAT}", ``\mathtt{CONCATENATE}" \}$

The problem is that...

  • Stack Exchange uses back-ticks to render text in a mono-spaced teletype font

  • $\mathcal{MathJax}$ and $\LaTeX$ use exactly two consecutive back-ticks to render a left-double quote . ASCII straight double quotation marks are always treated as right-quotation mark.

There are various solutions.

I was hoping that the order of precedence would be:

  1. Triple back-tick
  2. Dollar signs for $\mathcal{MathJax}$

Another alternative is that a double back-tick with nothing in-between the ticks is treated as a special token by the tokenizer, parser, or compiler for stack exchange mark-up language.


Double back-tick with nothing in-between the two ticks could be rendered as the Unicode character left-double quote . People usually write somthing in-between back-ticks, such as:

`hello world`

If there are backticks with nothing in-between it could be rendered as a double left quote

``
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LGTM:

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