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Inquiry: reproducibility of a paragraph-fill bug

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From: gojjoe <at> gmail.com
To: 21645 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21645: Inquiry: reproducibility of a paragraph-fill bug
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 17:55:18 +0200

Hi Tassilo,

Thank you very much. My bad, I should've checked this 
beforehand (and it wasn't my intention to submit a bug). I 
didn't imagine there could be such a (useful) feature – or I 
would've expected it to apply to '$...$' as well by default.

Cheers!
J


On Thu151008 17:14, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Well, this is actually a feature:
>
> ,----[ C-h v LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators RET ]
> | LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators is a variable defined in ‘latex.el’.
> | Its value is (\\\( \\\) \\\[ \\\])
> |
> | Documentation:
> | List of separators before or after which respectively a line
> | break will be inserted if they do not fit into one line.
> `----
>
> ,----[ (info "(auctex)Filling") ]
> |  -- User Option: LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators
> |      List of separators before or after which respectively linebreaks
> |      will be inserted if they do not fit into one line.  The separators
> |      can be curly braces, brackets, switches for inline math ('$', '\(',
> |      '\)') and switches for display math ('\[', '\]').  Such formatting
> |      can be useful to make macros and math more visible or to prevent
> |      overfull lines in the LaTeX source in case a package for displaying
> |      formatted TeX output inside the Emacs buffer, like preview-latex,
> |      is used.
> `----
>
> The "if they do not fit into one line" part is a bit unclear.  But I
> think it means that a newline is inserted before \( if the formula is
> longer than what's still fitting into the current line, and a newline is
> inserted after \) when the remainder of the paragraph doesn't fit on the
> current line anymore.  Well, that second case seems dubious to me.  I
> don't understand why one would like to have that.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>

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