From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.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 04:46:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-a49986d6-a04e-4815-938d-8a39e7f2385e-1612410368976@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1lwmrgc.fsf@telefonica.net>
There could be a minor mode that one can use with texinfo-mode.
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> 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.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-04 3:46 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 [this message]
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
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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