From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Small typo in calc.texi
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:45:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48c3b6004df3cf43a873@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83edmfwko4.fsf@gnu.org>
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>>>>> What is the problem with @expr{C_(-1)}?
>>
>> I just replaced
>>
>> @expr{C_(-1)} with @expr{C_{(-1)}}
>>
>> , despite syntax checker's complaints, and run make pdf. And the
>> resulting pdf looks the way it should look, with all of (-1) in the
>> sub-index.
>
> Anyway, since @expr is just an alias for @math, I guess we need some TeX
> expert to help us out here. Anyone?
>
I have some knowledge of TeX, and ISTM that Vladimir is right: with C_(-1)
only the opening parenthesis is subscripted, which means that you get
"C₍-1)", whereas with C_{(-1)} the expression (-1) is subscripted, which
means that you get "C₍₋₁₎".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-13 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-03 3:45 Small typo in calc.texi Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-06-03 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 3:40 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-06-13 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 12:10 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-06-13 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 13:08 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-06-13 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 13:45 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2023-06-13 13:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-06-13 19:39 ` Jens Schmidt
2023-06-15 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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