No consecutive numbering of single line equations

[chrisschuerz]

Single line equations written as:

$$
y = x^2
$$

are translated to:

\[
y = x^2
\]

in the .tex document.
For a correct enumeration in the final .pdf document however, the translation must be:

\begin{equation}
y = x^2
\end{equation}

A manual change in the .tex document and the knitting of the the corrected document fixes the problem. Nevertheless, an automized version is most likely preferable 😁

[nuest]

AFAICS the use of $$ in Rmd files has the advantage of having previews in RStudio and handling different output formats (HTML, PDF).

There seem to be options to automatically number equations based on $$:

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/111868/pandoc-how-can-i-get-numbered-latex-equations-to-show-up-in-both-pdf-and-html-o
• https://github.com/tomduck/pandoc-eqnos#installation
• https://github.com/lierdakil/pandoc-crossref

But they all require to install some system library, which I would not prefer to do. Instead I would document in the template that authors must use \begin{equation}. This is also in line with the other templates.

[chrisschuerz]

Yes I agree that the with the advantages the $$ has in Rmarkdown. If the user wants to use the template solely for compiling the file to submit the use of \begin{equation} ... \end{equation} is "tolerable".
Thank you for providing the comment in the template file!