From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 25594@debbugs.gnu.org, Tyler Smith <tyler@plantarum.ca>
Subject: bug#25594: 25.1.91; TeX input method is missing \sqrt macro
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:14:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iml5rikv.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0hwlv20.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:39:03 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Tyler Smith <tyler@plantarum.ca> writes:
>
>> The TeX input method does not provide a translation for the \sqrt macro.
>> The appropriate symbol, unicode Square Root, is available, and can be
>> inserted using the obscure name \surd.
>>
>> Perhaps that's a well-known word to some, but for regular TeX users, it
>> would be very helpful to have the following rule added to the
>> (latin-ltx--define-rules ...) form in lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el:
>>
>> ("\\sqrt" ?√)
>
> (I'm going through older Emacs bug reports that have received no
> response.)
>
> That seems a reasonable thing to add, and it's in patch form below. But
> what makes me hesitate to add it is that there's a commented-out
> "\\sqrt[3]" in the file... Does this mean that this should be
> "\\sqrt[2]"? Why is it commented out in the first place? Don't
> latin-ltx people like squares? And roots?
>
> So if anybody else who uses this input method could weigh in here, that
> would be nice.
No one has commented within 25 weeks.
AFAIK, TeX has the \sqrt command for a basic square root, and \sqrt[3]
for the cubic root. That suggests that the proposal is fine (we can
leave the sqrt[3] commented out as is for now IMHO).
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
>
> diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el
> index 93b1250a35..aed34d1265 100644
> --- a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el
> +++ b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el
> @@ -703,6 +703,7 @@
> ("\\ldq" ?\“)
> ("\\rdq" ?\”)
> ("\\defs" ?≙) ; per fuzz/zed
> + ("\\sqrt" ?√)
> ;; ("\\sqrt[3]" ?∛)
> ("\\llbracket" ?\〚) ; stmaryrd
> ("\\rrbracket" ?\〛)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-31 22:36 bug#25594: 25.1.91; TeX input method is missing \sqrt macro Tyler Smith
2019-07-26 14:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-20 20:14 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-01-20 20:39 ` Tyler Smith
2020-01-20 23:19 ` James Cloos
2020-01-20 23:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-22 13:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-22 14:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-22 14:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-22 15:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-22 15:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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