[Yuan-Ru-Lin]

Inline equations are now consumed as a single token up to the closing
$, matching how block equations are already handled. A modified
equation renders as a whole-equation deletion plus insertion.

Fixes #25

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Inline equations and backslash escape sequences are treated as indivisible text during comparisons, preventing their contents from being fragmented.
  • Dollar signs inside escaped characters or quoted strings no longer affect equation boundaries. An unclosed equation opener remains a single-character token.
  • Confirmed that removing an inline equation produces a single deletion span and continues to render as valid Typst.

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The tokenizer now treats inline equations and backslash escape sequences as atomic tokens. It skips escaped characters and quoted-string dollar signs when finding an equation’s closing delimiter. Tests cover tokenization, generated diff spans, and Typst parsing.

Changes: Inline equation tokenization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tokenizer equation and escape handling src/diff.rs, tests/integration.rs	tokenize_mixed groups closed inline equations and backslash escapes into tokens. Unclosed dollar signs remain single-character tokens. Unit and integration tests cover escaped and quoted dollars, deletion spans, and successful Typst parsing.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: sou1118, kjgoodrick

Merge Risk: Low · up to 6918d

Inline equations are now diffed as whole units, which fixes the unbalanced-delimiter failure reported in issue #25 for ordinary equations. Two rare edge cases can still produce malformed Typst: a literal $ inside a block comment in an equation, and a nested equation inside embedded code in an equation. Neither blocks merging, but the nested-equation case is a regression for that input and is worth a follow-up fix.

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Title check		The title "fix: treat inline equations as atomic tokens in word-level diff" matches the main change. The diff makes tokenize_mixed consume inline $...$ equations as single tokens, and the linked i…
Linked Issues check		Issue #25 requires tokenize_mixed to keep each inline $...$ equation atomic and to render a changed equation as one deletion plus one insertion. src/diff.rs adds $ tokenization through `find_c…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain within issue #25. Escape-sequence handling and quoted-dollar handling prevent the new inline-equation branch from fragmenting or falsely closing Typst syntax. The added integration …
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The title "fix: treat inline equations as atomic tokens in word-level diff" matches the main change. The diff makes tokenize_mixed consume inline $...$ equations as single tokens, and the linked issue #25 asks for this same behavior. The title is specific and concise. It names the component (word-level diff) and the fix (atomic equation tokens). The title does not mention the escape-sequence handling, but that is a secondary part of the change.

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Issue #25 requires tokenize_mixed to keep each inline $...$ equation atomic and to render a changed equation as one deletion plus one insertion. src/diff.rs adds $ tokenization through find_closing_dollar, skips escaped dollars and quoted strings, and falls back safely for an unclosed opener. tests/integration.rs verifies the issue example as one deletion and verifies valid Typst syntax. The token behavior also supports whole-token replacement for a changed equation.

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The changes remain within issue #25. Escape-sequence handling and quoted-dollar handling prevent the new inline-equation branch from fragmenting or falsely closing Typst syntax. The added integration test covers the reported failure and output validity. No unrelated block-matching or feature change is shown.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The new $...$ scanning currently risks mis-tokenizing escaped literal dollars (\ $) and lacks targeted unit tests for the newly introduced tokenizer behavior.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the word-level diff tokenizer to treat inline Typst equations ($...$) as a single atomic token, preventing diffs from splitting equations into multiple deletion/insertion spans and producing invalid Typst output (e.g., unclosed $ delimiters).

Changes:

• Extend tokenize_mixed to consume inline equations as one token up to the closing $.
• Align inline-equation behavior with existing atomic-token handling for other Typst constructs (e.g., #func[...], @ref, <label>).

File summaries

File	Description
src/diff.rs	Adds inline-equation $...$ atomic tokenization to prevent invalid diff output when equations are modified/deleted.

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In `@src/diff.rs`:
- Around line 187-189: Update tokenize_mixed’s equation-boundary scan to use
Typst-aware boundaries, skipping escaped dollar signs and dollar signs inside
quoted math strings before ending an equation. Preserve valid equation
splitting, and add regression tests covering both escaped and quoted dollar
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The new $ handling mis-detects escaping with multiple backslashes and can prematurely terminate on escaped \\$ inside math, which can still lead to invalid tokenization.

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[imphil]

@Yuan-Ru-Lin Can you give #28 a try? It might solve your problem.

[Yuan-Ru-Lin]

Hi @imphil, thanks for the pointer! I checked out #28 and ran the #25 example through it, but the output is unchanged and compilation still fails with unclosed delimiter.

Looking at the diff, #28 makes backslash escapes and backtick raw text atomic, but there's no $ branch in tokenize_mixed, so inline equations are still split at whitespace, which this PR fixes

[sou1118]

Sorry for the slow review. I've had a lot going on personally and couldn't get to this sooner. Thanks for your patience, and for tracking this down with such a clear write-up in #25! I can confirm this fixes the original example. The output now compiles with typst compile.

However, I found a couple of regressions. These inputs compile on main but fail on this branch:

old → new	main	this PR
Use `$HOME` and then run it now. → Use `$PATH` and then run it later.	OK	unexpected closing bracket
Text $"a $ b"$ end here. → Text $"a $ c"$ end there.	OK	unclosed delimiter

Details and suggestions are in the inline comments. It would also be great to have an integration test in tests/integration.rs using the #25 example, similar to test_inline_footnote_ref_to_funccall.

Raw-text handling overlaps with #28, so I'll coordinate the merge order. I'll squash-merge this, so don't worry about the commit history. Thanks again!

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A moderate tokenizer bug still lets dollar signs inside backtick-delimited raw spans cross into later equations, potentially generating invalid Typst output.

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• Skip inline raw spans when scanning equation delimiters · New

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Review comments at @src/diff.rs:
- Around line 281-287: Update find_closing_dollar to skip Typst block-comment
bodies while scanning for the closing dollar, so dollar signs inside /* ... */
do not terminate the equation. Preserve the existing quoted-string and escape
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An active moderate issue causes escaped dollar signs to be misparsed as equation delimiters, breaking literal-dollar rendering and requiring a code fix plus regression coverage.

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[Yuan-Ru-Lin]

Hi @sou1118, I hope you are doing well and thanks for the detailed review. I've made changes corresponding to your review and pushed them in 891202b. Ready for another look whenever you have time.

[sou1118]

Thanks for the quick turnaround! This looks much better: find_closing_dollar is clean, the quoted-string case is handled, and the new tests are great.

One regression is left, though. Removing preceding_backslashes also dropped the check on the opening $, so an escaped \$ in markup now starts an equation when a real one follows later in the paragraph:

old: It costs \$5 and then $x + y$ ok.
new: It costs \$6 and then $x + z$ ok.

This produces It costs \#diff-deleted[$5 and then $]..., which fails with unclosed delimiter (it compiles on main). The leftover \ also escapes the # of the diff call.

The simplest fix is probably to make \X a single atomic token in tokenize_mixed:

} else if c == '\\' {
    let start = i;
    i += c_len;
    if i < s.len() {
        i += s[i..].chars().next().unwrap().len_utf8();
    }
    tokens.push(&s[start..i]);
}

This is the same branch #28 adds, so the two should merge cleanly later. Could you also add back a test for \$5 and $x$?

Deferring the raw-text case to #28 sounds good to me. Thanks!

[Yuan-Ru-Lin]

I added back the \x branch as you sketched it, plus the \$5 and $x$ test. Your example now renders as \$#diff-deleted[5]#diff-added[6] and compiles. Pushed in 6918db1.

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The diff tokenizer can split valid Typst Unicode escapes such as \u{1f600}, producing malformed output or syntax errors when edits occur nearby.

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• Tokenize complete Typst Unicode escapes · New

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• Skip inline raw spans when scanning equation delimiters

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Minor · Skip embedded # code when scanning an inline equation. · diff.rs:286

src/diff.rs:286
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Skip embedded # code when scanning an inline equation.

find_closing_dollar ends an equation at the first unescaped $. It does not skip # code arguments such as #text[...]. For $a + #text[$x$]$, the token ends at the nested opening $, leaving $a + #text[$. If a changes, render_spans wraps that token in #diff-deleted[...] and #diff-added[...]. escape_content does not close the unmatched [, so the rendered output can have unbalanced brackets and $. Before this change, #text[$x$] stayed one token, so this input did not split.

Skip the # code groups in find_closing_dollar, using the existing skip_balanced helper:

Suggested fix

 fn find_closing_dollar(s: &str) -> Option<usize> {
     let mut in_string = false;
-    let mut chars = s.char_indices().skip(1);
-    while let Some((i, c)) = chars.next() {
-        match c {
-            '\\' => {
-                chars.next();
-            }
-            '"' => in_string = !in_string,
-            '$' if !in_string => return Some(i + c.len_utf8()),
-            _ => {}
-        }
-    }
-    None
+    let mut i = 1; // `s` starts with the opening `$`
+    while i < s.len() {
+        let c = s[i..].chars().next().unwrap();
+        let c_len = c.len_utf8();
+        match c {
+            '\\' => {
+                // Skip the escaped character.
+                i += c_len;
+                if let Some(next) = s[i..].chars().next() {
+                    i += next.len_utf8();
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
+            '"' => in_string = !in_string,
+            '#' if !in_string && s[i + c_len..].starts_with(|ch: char| ch.is_ascii_alphabetic()) => {
+                // Skip embedded code such as `#text[$x$]`, so its `$` does not end the equation.
+                let mut j = i + c_len;
+                while let Some(n) = s[j..]
+                    .chars()
+                    .next()
+                    .filter(|n| n.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(*n, '-' | '_'))
+                {
+                    j += n.len_utf8();
+                }
+                while let Some(n) = s[j..].chars().next() {
+                    match n {
+                        '[' => j = skip_balanced(s, j, '[', ']'),
+                        '(' => j = skip_balanced(s, j, '(', ')'),
+                        _ => break,
+                    }
+                }
+                i = j;
+                continue;
+            }
+            '$' if !in_string => return Some(i + c_len),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+        i += c_len;
+    }
+    None
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Review comment at @src/diff.rs at line 286:
Update find_closing_dollar to skip embedded # code arguments and their balanced
bracket or parenthesis groups using the existing skip_balanced helper, so
dollars inside those groups do not terminate the equation. Preserve the current
handling of escaped characters and quoted strings, and return the closing dollar
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src/diff.rs: 1

188-188: Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

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Preserve math syntax when rendering deleted equations.

When $x <= 1$ changes to $x <= 2$, the whole old equation enters escape_content. That function changes <= to \<=, so the deleted equation no longer displays the original relation. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Make the renderer preserve math syntax inside equation tokens.

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Review comments at @src/diff.rs:
- Line 286: Update find_closing_dollar to skip embedded # code arguments and
their balanced bracket or parenthesis groups using the existing skip_balanced
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[sou1118]

Thanks! Confirmed: the \$5 ... $x + y$ case compiles now, and everything else I tried still looks good. Approving.

I'll open a follow-up issue for the raw-text case (`$HOME` and $x$) so it doesn't get lost until #28 lands. Thanks again for sticking with this through the review!