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Would disallowing displayed equations ("double dollars") in titles be useful?

I guess that we can agree that this is not a good way to use MathJax (LaTeX) in titles. A user posting such question could have done it by mistake. … At Mathematics Stack Exchange the the string $$ is included among things which are disallowed/blacklisted in the title, see: Using block (displayed) equations in question titles Would blacklisting this …
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Using MathJax for formating (**bold**, *italics*)?

This is sometimes done in titles (where MarkDown is not available), but some users do this also in body of a question, where MarkDown is used. … Is it acceptable to use MathJax to achieve bold or italicized text in titles, where MarkDown is not available? …
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What is the position on titles using \displaystyle, \dfrac, etc.?

On that site there are explicit guidelines about LaTeX in titles and things like \displaystyle, \dfrac, \dbinom and similar are explicitly discouraged. … See Guidelines for good use of $\LaTeX$ in question titles and perhaps also Why no use displaystyle in titles? on meta.math.SE. …
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