From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug in TeX input mode? Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:50:40 +0300 Message-ID: <87k53attqn.fsf@iki.fi> References: <7b501d5c0906171343v202e47f9y64d808268cb50ee7@mail.gmail.com> <87y6rqimc5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245275598 32399 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2009 21:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Deniz Dogan To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 17 23:53:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MH34B-0004Qw-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:53:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MH34B-0008OI-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MH32L-0007EM-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MH32G-0007B7-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36796 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MH32G-0007B1-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:36993 helo=jenni2.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MH32F-0005H3-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by jenni2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 49F5CB6401E7F55B; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:51:01 +0300 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MH31k-0005DC-Q5; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:50:40 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87y6rqimc5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:26:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111565 Archived-At: On 2009-06-17 17:26 (-0400), Chong Yidong wrote: > Deniz Dogan writes: > >> \circ in the TeX input mode inserts the following character: >> >> character: =E2=97=8B (9675, #o22713, #x25cb) >> name: WHITE CIRCLE >> general-category: So (Symbol, Other) >> >> However, we feel like what should have been inserted is this: >> >> character: =E2=88=98 (8728, #o21030, #x2218) >> name: RING OPERATOR >> general-category: Sm (Symbol, Math) > > Maybe. But if you look at the TeX output of \circ, the size of the > circle looks a lot more like =E2=97=8B than =E2=88=98 (at least, when u= sing DejaVu Sans > Mono, I haven't checked with other fonts). And it seems more reasonabl= e > for "\circ" to mean WHITE CIRCLE than RING OPERATOR. I don't know if this experiment has any value but I just compiled a LaTeX document with $\circ$ to PDF file and then copied the character =66rom KPDF reader to Emacs. The character looks like this: character: =E2=97=A6 (9702, #o22746, #x25e6) name: WHITE BULLET general-category: So (Symbol, Other)