Unable to write < or > (lesser/greater than)

[peteruhnak]

LaTeX doesn't have special commands for < (less than) or > (greater than) signs, this however results in clash with html tag opening/closing. KaTeX itself doesn't have this problem (I can write a < b here https://khan.github.io/KaTeX/ just fine), so I think the issue is the parser here.

Neither of these variants will work:

• $a < b$
• $a < b$
• $a \< b$

(Interestingly the first one will also break my vim-pandoc highlighting)