What is the simplest way to escape raw latex syntax for MMD to latex compilation?

[AmberV]

@Rcordery

I am new to Scrivener and only some LaTeX experience. I ended up just putting the preamble and footer in texts and set Compile as-is so I end up with a single tex file. In the compile replacements replace with (make sure those are two dashes) and similar for ^,%, and anything else that fails in the tex file. Not elegant but that worked for me except for a problem with one - randomly being converted to two.

If you’re interested in an approach that bypassing any front end syntax via Markdown parsing, and basically just treat Scrivener like a pure plain-text editor for writing LaTeX, check out this thread, and the example project template I’ve been working on.

The HTML comment method for inserting LaTeX through MMD will no longer work with the next version of Scrivener. We’re upgrading the core engine to MMD6 and so the method I described above will be better if you’re starting a new project right now.

Here is another post on the general approaches Scrivener provides.

@shongololo

I then set the latex options to “None” to reduce the complexity of the output to just the compiled .tex file.

Yeah you can stash your boilerplates into the compiler with the “custom” setting, but if you’ve already got that all set up in your texmf folder or wherever, just getting the content out with “none” is good.