It requires four backslash for a newline in math environment

[emptymalei]

demo page

My source code is

\begin{align}
&\delta(x) = \begin{cases} + \infty, &\qquad x=0 \\ 0, &\qquad x\neq 0 \end{cases} \\
&\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \delta(x) dx =1
\end{align}

I generated the book and the tex source reads like this

\begin{align}
&\delta(x) = \begin{cases} + \infty, &\qquad x=0 \ 0, &\qquad x\neq 0 \end{cases} \
&\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \delta(x) dx =1
\end{align}

It's kind of eats one of my backslashes. Any fix to this?

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BTW, the pdf generated doesn't render math. See this book for an example.

[ErnWong]

Hello. I think you need to escape that slash, so instead of \\, you will need \\\' or\'.

That also means that \[x^2\] needs to become \\[x^2\\].

Also, MathJax uses JavaScript to typeset equations, which is done after the page is loaded. It does this to match the font size with the surrounding x-height (to make it look pretty!). This probably explains why math is not rendered in pdf, for now.

[ErnWong]

I guess it's possible to create a plugin which helps you convert all backslashes to two within mathematics, but that might be undesirable as it causes inconsistent markup.

[emptymalei]

i think i'll just go back to sphinx/readthedocs. gitbook is a very nice way to write just words but not formula, for now.