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From: Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:05:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0itgvu4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl49kca3.fsf@gmail.com>


Hi All,

Given the way the conversation has evolved I think it may be worth revisiting
another viewpoint to see if anybody has any nice ideas.

As things are, regardless of the complexities of parsing and inline vs.
block elements etc., just considering the user experience when running
org-fill on an example like the one below, the behaviour isn't /nice/.

Might there be some way we could allow for people who are used to LaTeX
and/or like \[ ... \] to have fill behaviour that leaves \[ ... \]
blocks alone? My original idea was changing how org-fill works for
everyone, the discussion has gone on to changing \[ ... \] to a block
element -- both of these seem to have rather significant issues.

Ihor came up with the idea of making org-fill something more
customisable by the user, so that someone could have this behaviour
without making Org behave un-idiomatically for everyone. I proposed
maybe just having a setting could be a halfway house between my original
patch and his idea.

Does anybody have any other thoughts?

> If you’re wondering why I’m so opposed to the current behaviour, that is probably
> best explained by a more realistic demo that what I have in the commit message.
>
> ┌────
> │ Since \(\cos\) is an even function, we can negate the numerator of the argument
> │ without changing the result, giving
> │ \[
> │   \cos \left( \pi \frac{C_1-x}{2C_1+D} \right) \ , \quad C_1 = \frac{D}{2}.
> │ \]
> │ this will be positive over \(x \in (0,D)\), and so we can rewrite \(\tilde{y}\) as,
> │ \[
> │   \tilde{y}(x) = \frac{2D}{\pi} \log \cos \left( \pi \frac{\frac{D}{2}-x}{2D} \right) + C_2.
> │ \]
> │ Once again considering that \(y(0)=y(D)=0\), it is clear that
> │ \[
> │   C_2 = - \frac{2D}{\pi} \log \cos \left( \frac{\pi}{4} \right) = - \frac{2D}{\pi} \log 2^{-\frac{1}{2}} = \frac{D}{\pi} \log 2.
> │ \]
> │ The complete solution for \(\tilde{y}\) is hence,
> │ \[
> │   \tilde{y} = \frac{2D}{\pi} \log \cos \left( \pi \frac{D-2x}{4D} \right) + \frac{D}{\pi} \log 2.
> │ \]
> └────
> is currently filled to
> ┌────
> │ Since \(\cos\) is an even function, we can negate the numerator of the argument
> │ without changing the result, giving \[ \cos \left( \pi \frac{C_1-x}{2C_1+D}
> │ \right) \ , \quad C_1 = \frac{D}{2}. \] this will be positive over \(x \in (0,D)\),
> │ and so we can rewrite \(\tilde{y}\) as, \[ \tilde{y}(x) = \frac{2D}{\pi} \log \cos \left( \pi
> │ \frac{\frac{D}{2}-x}{2D} \right) + C_2. \] Once again considering that
> │ \(y(0)=y(D)=0\), it is clear that \[ C_2 = - \frac{2D}{\pi} \log \cos \left(
> │ \frac{\pi}{4} \right) = - \frac{2D}{\pi} \log 2^{-\frac{1}{2}} = \frac{D}{\pi} \log 2.
> │ \] The complete solution for \(\tilde{y}\) is hence, \[ \tilde{y} = \frac{2D}{\pi} \log \cos
> │ \left( \pi \frac{D-2x}{4D} \right) + \frac{D}{\pi} \log 2. \]
> └────

--
Timothy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-04  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-30 17:20 [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations Timothy
2021-09-30 17:44 ` Timothy
2021-09-30 18:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-09-30 18:54   ` Timothy
2021-09-30 19:02     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-09-30 19:17       ` Colin Baxter
2021-09-30 22:11         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-09-30 22:26           ` Tim Cross
2021-09-30 19:28       ` Timothy
2021-09-30 20:45       ` Timothy
2021-09-30 22:55         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-10-01  7:38           ` Stefan Nobis
2021-10-01 20:41             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-10-02  8:17               ` Org syntax: \[ \] as block element instead of inline object Max Nikulin
2021-10-02 10:47                 ` Stefan Nobis
2021-10-02  9:57               ` [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations Stefan Nobis
2021-10-02 10:04               ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-02 10:18                 ` Timothy
2021-10-02 11:24                   ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-02 14:21                     ` Max Nikulin
2021-10-02 17:51                       ` Tom Gillespie
2021-10-02 18:28                         ` Timothy
2021-10-02 18:57                           ` Tom Gillespie
2021-10-02 20:25                             ` org-latex-preview and latex export blocks Timothy
2021-10-03  8:50                         ` [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations Max Nikulin
2021-10-03 10:56                           ` Stefan Nobis
2021-10-03 12:04                             ` Max Nikulin
2021-10-04  5:57                               ` Tom Gillespie
2021-10-04 17:11                                 ` Max Nikulin
2021-10-03 12:35                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01  7:43           ` Timothy
2021-10-02 11:06             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-10-02 11:24               ` Timothy
2021-10-03  8:49                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-03  8:50                   ` Timothy
2021-10-03  9:13                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-03  9:14                       ` Timothy
2021-10-03  9:41                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-03  9:42                           ` Timothy
2022-06-18  6:00                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01 14:42         ` Greg Minshall
2021-10-04  6:05         ` Timothy [this message]
2021-10-04  7:11           ` Tom Gillespie
2021-10-04  7:15             ` Timothy
2021-10-04  8:11           ` Przemysław Pietrzak

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