GNU bug report logs - #44799
28.0.50; Calc: Meter not printed as \text in latex output

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Message #17 received at 44799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 44799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44799: 28.0.50; Calc: Meter not printed as \text in latex
 output
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:16:21 +0100

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:

> A serious reform seems unlikely unless someone really is willing to do
> the work. More realistic might be adding a way to tell Calc which
> variables you want to have typeset as units, as this can vary from
> person to person and time to time.

Would it be possible to make output syntax depend on how the symbol is
actually interpreted by Calc in the given context?

> > BTW, do you know (Bug#30231) why allowed characters in units are
> > restricted?
>
> No idea, but isn't it just the restriction of variable symbols in
> general?

You mean, in Calc?  Then I wonder why we have that restriction.


Regards,

Michael.

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