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From: pietru@caramail.com
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 04:51:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-64fc73de-e572-49b2-a82b-2399a3106584-1612410664002@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1lwmrgc.fsf@telefonica.net>

Recently texinfo has been improved to better handle the display
of mathematics.  For instance, it now also uses mathjax where
one is able to scale the text.  Traditionally texinfo did have some
support for mathematical expressions, but since last year the support
has been expanded considerably.

> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2021 at 3:39 PM
> From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...
>
> pietru@caramail.com writes:
> 
> >> The docstring of prettify-symbols-alist says:
> >> 
> >>   Each element looks like (SYMBOL . CHARACTER), where the symbol
> >>   matching SYMBOL (a string, not a regexp) will be shown as CHARACTER
> >>   instead.
> >> 
> >> so no, SYMBOL *must* *not* be a regexp.
> >> 
> >> I can't reproduce the problem you are describing. After starting Emacs:
> >> 
> >> emacs -Q
> >> 
> >> if I evaluate this in *scratch*:
> >> 
> >>   (push '("\\alpha" . ?α) prettify-symbols-alist)
> >> 
> >> then open a .tex file, write \alpha_i, M-x prettify-symbols-alist, the
> >> string is transformed to α_i.
> >> 
> >> Please note that the definition of SYMBOL depends on the major mode of
> >> the buffer, so make sure that your current major mode is tex-mode.
> >> 
> >
> > No, the major mode is texinfo-mode.  Texinfo allows mathematics to be
> > displayed using the usual tex expressions.  Could this functionality
> > be put for use in texinfo-mode?
> 
> I missed the texinfo bit on your original message, sorry.
> 
> Supporting what you want would require either changing what texinfo
> considers a symbol or changing prettify-symbols-mode to work on
> something else instead of symbols.
> 
> Probably the easiest route for you is to derive a mode from texinfo-mode
> that modifies the syntax table defined in texinfo.el to suit your needs
> (see "Syntax Tables" in the Elisp manual).
> 
> If you insist on changing texinfo-mode itself, put those modifications
> on the mode's syntax table and submit the change to the Emacs
> maintainers, but my guess is that you will need to give pretty solid
> reasons for the change to be accepted, and then wait a long time until
> Emacs 28 is released and becomes widespread enough among your target
> users.
> 
> 
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-04  3:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-04  1:24 prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" pietru
2021-02-04  2:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-04  3:03   ` pietru
2021-02-04  3:39     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-04  3:46       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04  3:51       ` pietru [this message]
2021-02-04  4:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-04  4:21         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04 16:12           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-04 18:09             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04 18:21               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-04 20:14                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04 18:15             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04 18:23               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-04 20:22                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04 20:38                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-04 20:54                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-05 20:32                     ` pietru
2021-02-05 21:01                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-05 21:05                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-05 21:54                           ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-05 21:57                           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-05 22:09                       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-05 22:22                         ` pietru
2021-02-05 22:45                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-05 22:56                             ` pietru
2021-02-05 23:04                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-05 23:15                                 ` pietru
2021-02-05 23:22                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-05 23:43                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-05 23:44                                     ` pietru
2021-02-06  0:05                                     ` pietru
2021-02-04 20:34                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04  3:46 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-02-04  3:59   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-04  8:44 ` tomas

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