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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:09:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-9016b59c-335a-4194-bd4a-10ff9198da2b-1612462171288@3c-app-mailcom-bs01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh7mrddac.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2021 at 4:12 AM
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...
>
> > We should find the best way to do this rather than a hack
> > that is likely to be rejected by emacs-devel.
> 
> I don't know what hack you're referring to.

Because I saw a few different implementations of prettify 
in various files and packages all trying to do the same 
kind of thing. 
 
> > Whilst texinfo.el takes care of texinfo commands, it completely
> > disregards the use of tex constructs and the focus on displaying
> > mathematical expressions within texinfo.
> 
> `texinfo.el` deserves some extra love, yes.
> I don't think anyone has contributed to it in the last several years :-(
 
Óscar Fuentes, I think wrote that if I insist on changing texinfo-mode
itself would require me to to give a very solid reason for the change
to be accepted.

As you recognise that it deserves additional work, my reason should be
solid enough.   

 
>         Stefan
> 
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-04 18:09 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
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 [this message]
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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