MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
Tex Highlighting Issue
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- Rich Text Format
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Description
Tex Highlighting breaks when I type '$', it should keep highlighting until the next '$'
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in MacDown by typing '$' inside TeX content and observe where highlighting stops. Trace the syntax-highlighting entry point used for TeX in the macOS editor, then verify that highlighting continues through the escaped dollar sign until the next unescaped '$'.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown, tex
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100