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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Bug#624735: Displays \it with an italic '\'
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Josh Triplett |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Bug#624735: Displays \it with an italic '\' |
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Mon, 9 May 2011 23:45:53 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:15:45PM +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Josh Triplett (2011-05-09) writes:
>
> > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:40:39PM +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd say yes. Fontifying the whole macro looks more consistent to me
> >> than fontifying only the part after the backslash.
> >
> > Doing so makes the '\' look like a '|'.
>
> I'm using DejaVu Sans Mono with a size of 17 pixels here and the two
> characters can be distinguished easily. Maybe the font you are using is
> suboptimal?
DejaVu Sans Mono here as well. I can distinguish the characters, but I
wouldn't say "easily"; it takes staring at the unusual-looking italic
'\' more than once. :)
> Also, in which context or use case would it be a big problem if the
> characters where not easily distinguishable?
In my case, I encountered this problem when staring at a complex TeX
macro, which ran several commands in a row, along the lines of
\foo\it\bar\baz. The italic '\' characters caused by the formatting of
\it caused me quite a bit of confusion when trying to decipher it, until
I figured out that they really did represent backslashes. It took me
some time to parse the \it in the first place, since I didn't see the
characteristic '\'.
- Josh Triplett
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Bug#624735: Displays \it with an italic '\', Josh Triplett, 2011/05/01