Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...

[pietru]

Would allowing a regexp solve the expression \alpha-\beta,
\alpha+\beta, \alpha/\beta, so that \alpha and \beta are
prettified seperately?



> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2021 at 8:38 AM
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...
>
> >> What is "the" improvement you're referring to?
> > Improvement for prog-mode.el to be able to handle the prettifying
> > the tex commands as well.  Prettify greek letters and math symbols,
> > Binary operations and other relations,  and arrows.
> 
> prog-mode.el shouldn't try to prettify TeX commands, but yes, it should
> provide the means to do it.  AFAICT what it provides is already
> sufficient to prettify any of TeX's symbols.  It might fall short when
> you try to prettify other things like \frac, negative space,
> superscript, ...
> 
> 
>         Stefan
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