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Wrong usage of underscore in .tex files

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>
Cc: 23102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23102: Wrong usage of underscore in .tex files
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:39:50 +0100

Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it> writes:

> Attached is how Emacs displays the usage of underscore out of
> mathematics and friends, for example:
>
> \href{http://www.foo.it/bla_bla.html}{BLA_BLA}
>
> here the underscore is not used to display a subscript as in $A_n$ so
> the result, in my opinion, is wrong. At first sight, it is also almost
> unreadable...

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29, but it's a kind of gross hack.
tex-mode doesn't seem to have that much infrastructure for handling
stuff like this, but I may be missing something.

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