From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 45917@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45917: [PATCH] Use big brackets in Calc in big mode
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:37:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh15o5bk.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99D62C96-8FA8-4089-BB4C-9BA65F30B7E3@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Sat, 16 Jan 2021 18:10:31 +0100")
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> The attached patch makes Calc use big brackets in Big mode when the
> Unicode characters are available. This makes for prettier display
> which is sort of the point of using Big mode. It follows previous use
> of Unicode characters for square root and integral signs.
Makes sense to me, but...
> As far as I can tell the only reasons for not applying this would be
> that it is common with fonts or terminals where this doesn't look
> good,
... would it be possible to have a fallback if the display doesn't
support these characters?
> or that the resulting formula isn't recognised by the
> embedded-mode parser (which is already the case with several other
> constructs).
Yeah. Or there could be a variable to allow the user to not use these
fancy brackets if this is important for them?
--
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-16 17:10 bug#45917: [PATCH] Use big brackets in Calc in big mode Mattias Engdegård
2021-01-19 5:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-01-19 10:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-01-19 15:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-19 17:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
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