On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:59:58 +0100
Marco Patzer
What sort of needs for structure could \m address for inline math? Clearly, an equation to which one might want to have a reference math should appear rather as displayed math.
While I agree on that one, writing \math{x^2} clearly states what it is. TeX tradition aside, dollar signs make no sense here and you have to manually match beginning and end. Braces are matched automatically (probably depends on the editor as well).
\math{x²} states what it is. However \m{x²} is cryptic and, although only two characters longer than $x²$, is infinitely less readable than the dollar-delimited variant, even now to MS/Word users who have ever used the equation editor. When typing sentences containing lots of math, having many \math{} commands becomes unwieldy, but, in the end, this becomes a question of personal taste. Alan