Add documentation for escaping dollar signs in LaTeX #2522
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| Since dollar signs trigger LaTeX rendering, text containing dollar amounts may accidentally render as math equations. To display literal dollar signs in your documentation (like prices, budgets, costs, or financial data), escape them with a backslash (`\`): |
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Summary
Adds a new subsection under the LaTeX documentation explaining how to escape dollar signs to prevent unintended LaTeX rendering. This addresses the issue where text between two dollar signs is rendered as a LaTeX equation.
The documentation includes:
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Review & Testing Checklist for Human
highlight-framediv renders correctly with the before/after examplesThe product costs $10 and shipping is $5) demonstrates the LaTeX rendering issue\$10and\$5) displays literal dollar signsTest plan: Navigate to the Rich media in Markdown page on the preview deployment and verify both the visual example and the markdown code block render as expected.
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Link to Devin run: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/b52e6865c96c489c92d8b39304a465ed
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