Why does u using "\left...\right" in mitex lead to an error?

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Is “\left…\right” not supported by mitex?

2

What’s a minimal example that reproduces your problem? The following works fine for me:

#import "@preview/mitex:0.2.4": *

#mitext(`\[ \left(\frac{a}{b}\right) \]`)

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Got it. I used:

#mi("\[ \left(\frac{a}{b}\right) \]")

It seems that “” works fine if there is no “\left…\right”.

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With a string "..." you need to escape the backslash characters, i.e. write \\ instead of \, so it’s more convenient to write the Latex code in raw text `...`

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particularly, in \right the \r is recognized as a carriage return:

#"\[ \left(\frac{a}{b}\right) \]"

gives you

\[ \left(\frac{a}{b}
ight) \]

All other are unknown escapes, for which the original text (backslash and following character) are preserved, so it only really shows with \left/\right. Using raw text is the correct remedy.