Referencing an equation

[spring-haru]

I referenced an equation with the following:

$$
y= x+1
$$ (eq:var(a))

Equation {eq}`var(a)` is great!

but it generates a warning

WARNING: equation not found: var(a)

and the result is not as expected. The same result for [](var(a)).

On the other, if () is removed, then it works fine.

$$
y= x+1
$$ (eq:var_a)

Equation {eq}`var_a` is great!

Is it an expected result?

[choldgraf]

Yeah I suspect that it is expected, the parentheses likely mess up the parsing regex. Maybe you could escape the interior parentheses with backslashes?