[BUG] Escaping "<" and ">" inside math blocks when exporting to HTML/MathJax (was: Inequalities in math blocks)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a reminder of an old bug. From my point of view it is serious 
> enough, but not release critical due to its age.
>
> &<> characters must be escaped as HTML entities when LaTeX snippets and 
> blocks are exported for MathJax
>
> Form my year-old notes:
> - =#+options: tex:verbatim= properly escapes symbols.
> - There are functions that performs such replacement in ox-html and 
> ox-odt, but `org-format-latex` resides in org.el, so some refactoring 
> and backward compatibility stubs are necessary.

>From my understanding, all we need is to fix `org-format-latex' by
calling `org-html-encode-plain-text'.

Could you please elaborate about refactoring and backward compatibility?

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