From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44799: 28.0.50; Calc: Meter not printed as \text in latex output Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:52:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mtz9cd06.fsf@web.de> <732F118E-0110-4CE2-8900-C64E06D78A04@acm.org> <87o8joz2sq.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.17\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23995"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 44799@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 14:53:16 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1khCHL-0006AO-BP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:53:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35192 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khCHK-0003vF-Ad for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khCHB-0003uv-Rv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1khCH8-0008Q3-5B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1khCH8-0001KF-1y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:53:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44799 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 44799-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44799.16061395565054 (code B ref 44799); Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44799) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Nov 2020 13:52:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49567 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1khCGi-0001JS-Df for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail152c50.megamailservers.eu ([91.136.10.162]:41042 helo=mail50c50.megamailservers.eu) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1khCGf-0001JG-CA for 44799@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:52:35 -0500 X-Authenticated-User: mattiase@bredband.net DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=megamailservers.eu; s=maildub; t=1606139551; bh=0SV1ycG1bZQg0XhggMmHB1c72QFTfiz5cHPPhyyX6oY=; h=Subject:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:References:To:From; b=ZnGMJVIvXWLrPkT5NPAENV0UsGOIhzDl8WaSefdoN53YiogGLfzmunPyMy1cBEvzN /lLdDA95wKimtFHYhtDUWd1Ip1A9GReW8aBGrY11Cyu4TJOcEnsUsPMqrIgRkJVSkM UBBb+U4U8GikVr+lmsaWzRvgT4bv4oHDaBuCm2CU= Feedback-ID: mattiase@acm.or Original-Received: from stanniol.lan (c-064ae655.032-75-73746f71.bbcust.telenor.se [85.230.74.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail50c50.megamailservers.eu (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id 0ANDqP43021012; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:52:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87o8joz2sq.fsf@web.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.17) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A782F23.5FBBBE9F.0085, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=ceesUULM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Ni+dBsiEfW2GqKMPYZim9A==:117 a=Ni+dBsiEfW2GqKMPYZim9A==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=M51BFTxLslgA:10 a=UKZ2ViDlf4qED5UZk2sA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-Origin-Country: SE X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:193912 Archived-At: 23 nov. 2020 kl. 13.16 skrev Michael Heerdegen = : > Would it be possible to make output syntax depend on how the symbol is > actually interpreted by Calc in the given context? Not sure if that is even possible. For example, adding 2 m and 3 m gives = 5 m, and Calc doesn't care whether m is a variable or unit here. >>> BTW, do you know (Bug#30231) why allowed characters in units are >>> restricted? >>=20 >> No idea, but isn't it just the restriction of variable symbols in >> general? >=20 > You mean, in Calc? Then I wonder why we have that restriction. Again, it's probably a matter of history. Calc is old and may even = predate full Unicode support in Emacs. Latin and Greek letters suffice for the vast majority of units; the only = major exceptions I can think of are =C3=85 and =C2=B0 (for the angle and = =C2=B0C). Same goes for variables, although diacritics could be useful. = Then there are currencies, but as mentioned, $ has special meaning and = cannot be used.