Re: org-mode pretty entities has \perp but not \parallel

[Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu>]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu> writes:
>
[ snip ]
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> ("parallel" "\\parallel" t "&parallel;" "||" "||" "%")
>> #+END_SRC
>
> Except the ∥ that was somehow eaten in your snip (but OK below).

Hmm, not sure where that happened, I'll have to look out for that when I'm emailing unicode parallel lines again. :)

>
>> I also tried to add something like
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC 
>> ("|" "\\\|" t "&parallel;" "||" "||" "%")
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> with "\\\|" or "\\|", but it wasn't working for me. I didn't see any
>> non-alphabetical entities ("name") in the variable org-entities-user,
>> so I was guessing it wouldn't work with a one-line edit.
>
> I think they are not the same.  I'd use $\|x\|_2$ for a norm, say.
> Parallel is a relation: $a\parallel b$.

Ah yes. Now this \| makes more sense. 

>
>> Is the patch okay? I simply used C-x s d (C-g C-x b *Diff* RET).
>
> If you want to go "all in", which is a lot of fun, you have to submit a
> TINY PATCH:
>
>      http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html
>
> Otherwise, I'm happy to submit it for you (though I'm not sure if
> something like this would go to maint or master...?)
>
> —Rasmus

Yes please do submit when you have the time, though I will try to get closer to being setup for this when I can. (E.g., I'm currently on Elpa Org-mode... and my commits are mostly linear for personal files.)