The latex example in the docs is broken, it doesn't handle foo $tex$ bar (foo disappears). This should be mentioned, or the docs should be fixed.

I spent a while trying to get latex like $this$ working without success,
I read #1538 but solution 1 was a hack putting math inside code blocks,
and solution 2 was complex and stateful.

IMO this is the kind of thing that should be easy. I like the example in the docs except it doesn't work ):

I read #1653 but the solution seems overly complicated, I can do something like that but IMO modifying inlineText shouldn't be necessary for this.
I don't understand the codebase though so maybe this is unavoidable because of how lexing is done.

I'd be happy to contribute a fix if I figure it out, or someone explains to me :)