Re: Latex superscripts, subscripts and curly braces

[Hans Lonsdale <hanslonsdale@mailfence.com>]

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> From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue Jan 03 15:09:24 CET 2023
> To: Hans Lonsdale <hanslonsdale@mailfence.com>, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Latex superscripts, subscripts and curly braces
> 
> 
> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> >> Sent: Sat Dec 31 21:54:16 CET 2022
> >> To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >> Subject: Re: Latex superscripts, subscripts and curly braces
> >>
> >>
> >> Hans Lonsdale wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am using latex-mode, which is able to shift superscripts
> >>> upwards, and subscripts downwards, using a smaller font.
> >>> For simple cases the shifting works well.
> >> Are we talking when you edit the source?
> > Perhaps there can be two levels, one showing _^ {} and a setting to show things without them.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> org-mode can do it with (setq org-pretty-entities t) and (setq 
> org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts).
> 
> I cannot find any setting to do the same thing with latex buffers, but 
> it should certainly be possible to at least reproduce org's implementation.

My intention is to also have that in tex-mode and latex-mode as well.
 
> For that it's worth, I usually *disable* such things, because they make 
> it very awkward to edit subscripts and superscripts. The effect is that 
> the ^ _ and the braces are hidden, but they can still be input and 
> deleted, and in my experience it's very easy to end up in broken 
> configurations with that.

My intention is to have a key binding to change the visualisation.  I usually 
make changes to the code rather  than to the prettified version.
 
> Instead, I use a proportional font, which makes the braces thin enough 
> to not be annoying. And the scripts are only shifted up or down without 
> changing their size -- that may come from my theme, I can't find 
> anything in my config for that. All together, even long scripts are very 
> easy to visualize and edit.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Thibaut
> 


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