From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Tyler Smith <tyler@plantarum.ca>
Cc: 25594@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25594: 25.1.91; TeX input method is missing \sqrt macro
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:39:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0hwlv20.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1485902188.2097642.866051648.4BFB3785@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Tyler Smith's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:36:28 -0500")
Tyler Smith <tyler@plantarum.ca> writes:
> The TeX input method does not provide a translation for the \sqrt macro.
> The appropriate symbol, unicode Square Root, is available, and can be
> inserted using the obscure name \surd.
>
> Perhaps that's a well-known word to some, but for regular TeX users, it
> would be very helpful to have the following rule added to the
> (latin-ltx--define-rules ...) form in lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el:
>
> ("\\sqrt" ?√)
(I'm going through older Emacs bug reports that have received no
response.)
That seems a reasonable thing to add, and it's in patch form below. But
what makes me hesitate to add it is that there's a commented-out
"\\sqrt[3]" in the file... Does this mean that this should be
"\\sqrt[2]"? Why is it commented out in the first place? Don't
latin-ltx people like squares? And roots?
So if anybody else who uses this input method could weigh in here, that
would be nice.
diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el
index 93b1250a35..aed34d1265 100644
--- a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el
+++ b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-ltx.el
@@ -703,6 +703,7 @@
("\\ldq" ?\“)
("\\rdq" ?\”)
("\\defs" ?≙) ; per fuzz/zed
+ ("\\sqrt" ?√)
;; ("\\sqrt[3]" ?∛)
("\\llbracket" ?\〚) ; stmaryrd
("\\rrbracket" ?\〛)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-26 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-31 22:36 bug#25594: 25.1.91; TeX input method is missing \sqrt macro Tyler Smith
2019-07-26 14:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-01-20 20:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-20 20:39 ` Tyler Smith
2020-01-20 23:19 ` James Cloos
2020-01-20 23:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-22 13:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-22 14:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-22 14:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-22 15:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-01-22 15:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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