Stack Overflow on LaTeX(?) Parsing

[oncomouse]

I'm having the following error:

RegexpError (Stack overflow in regexp matcher: /((?:[|${1,2}|\begin{equation})(?:\$|(?!$|]|\end{equation}).)+?(?:]|${1,2}|\end{equation}))/m):
lib/chunks/chunk.rb:52:in gsub!' lib/chunks/chunk.rb:52:inapply_to'
lib/wiki_content.rb:110:in inside_chunks' lib/wiki_content.rb:110:ineach'
lib/wiki_content.rb:110:in inside_chunks' lib/wiki_content.rb:184:inbuild_chunks'
lib/wiki_content.rb:158:in initialize' lib/page_renderer.rb:140:innew'
lib/page_renderer.rb:140:in render' lib/page_renderer.rb:29:indisplay_content'
app/models/page.rb:26:in revise' app/models/wiki.rb:79:inrevise_page'
app/controllers/wiki_controller.rb:323:in save' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:96:inprocess_request'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:516:in accept_and_process_next_request' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:274:inmain_loop'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:321:in start_request_handler' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:275:insend'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:275:in handle_spawn_application' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:470:insafe_fork'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:270:in handle_spawn_application' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:insend'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in server_main_loop' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:206:instart_synchronously'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:180:in start' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb:149:instart'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:219:in spawn_rails_application' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:132:inlookup_or_add'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:214:in spawn_rails_application' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:82:insynchronize'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb:79:in synchronize' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:213:inspawn_rails_application'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:132:in spawn_application' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:275:inhandle_spawn_application'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:in __send__' /dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:357:inserver_main_loop'
/dh/passenger/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:206:in `start_synchronously'
/dh/passenger/helper-scripts/passenger-spawn-server:99

When I try to save the following page of Markdown:

Step Five: Getting a Thesis Statement

My "thesis statement" is going to be a paragraph long, maybe even two paragraphs. I've sized this thesis statement as a proportionate work-horse for a 25-page paper. One to three sentences for a six-page paper = One to two paragraphs for a twenty-five page paper. To get my thesis, I have to keep condensing all of my little, teeny, wispy, observations into more muscular, specific, logically related ideas. In Step Five, then, I'm going to convert my quotes list into a list of observations (factual commentary) that I will then process into a list of ideas (interpretive ideas).

I won't bore you with the re-organized categories or the "transitional observations" that take me from simple comments to complex interpretation, but I will show you the text I used as a map for constructing my thesis paragraph.

Text Consulted for Writing Thesis

Basic Insight

• Shirley is a multispecies ethnography of changing times in Ykshr

Politics

• Class resolution as “multispecies humanity”
• Of course conservatism in Shirley’s status and $ coded as natural
• Napoleonic war: 2 French brothers become stewards of English land (Robin Hood narrative prevents French tyranny)
• Feminism: cosmic female power derived from identification w/nature (Eve = Nature = Shirley’s mother)

Governing concepts: Equilibrium (Caroline, Louis); Stewardship (Robert, Shirley)

• Both Caroline and Louis must curb Robert and Shirley’s power
• Shirley-as-animal makes male sexual power desirable and OK for feminist (Humans must accept and savor their animality to be fully human)

All relationships develop by negotiating nature together (esp for Caro’s relations)

• Not about symbolism but about stewardship
• Disagreements about plants and animals signify bad relationships
• All kinds of social strife are a human becoming-animal (Social relations established through natural economy, flowers, trees; the content of human relationships is nature; Paul Rabinow’s biosociality)

Withdrawal from nature is death

• Humanity cannot be as sensitive as fairies

Narration

• Not just about word-paintings, but emplotting Nature-as-agent
• A good writer must be a multispecies ethnographer (real causality) (Brontes are ethnographers of Yorkshire)
• Writers must contextualize factories within multispecies ethnography (don’t have to like it but do have to tell the history of loss)
• Narrative of loss is counterbalanced by narrative of equilibrium (There is less romance (cf beginning of book) but more food for thought) (cf end of book) and a call to create a new equilibrium (Chartists)
• New stories are created when humans are considered in new natural spaces (hence the New World imagery w/Louis and Shirley)

Ifs, Ands, Buts - Potential Problems

• Critics who dislike Shirley and Louis’s relationship as anti-feminist
• Factory isn’t portrayed as a wholly positive influence on nature! (Why didn’t I choose Wuthering Heights or Agnes Grey? (because I like a challenge.)
• Multispecies ethnography (MSE) often privileges animals over plants
• MSE is often really about race relations/first-third world relations
• People may see nature as just a symbol in Brontë’s work

Thesis Paragraph

Thoughts?

[distler]

Umh. Try replacing '$' with '$'. The default text-filter assigns special meaning to dollar-signs.

If you don't need equations, or LaTeX export, you can switch to the plain markown filter for your wiki (and then you won't have to escape the dollar-signs.