Even with plain LaTeX I've had trouble with Org mode trying to decide when to 'smartly' switch into maths mode, and what should be literal, e.g. `\latexfunction

Even with plain LaTeX I've had trouble with Org mode trying to decide when to 'smartly' switch into maths mode, and what should be literal, e.g. `\latexfunction{...}` is sometimes translated as `\\\latexfunction{...}` because Org decides it should escape the backslash.