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28.0.50; Calc: Meter not printed as \text in latex output

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 44799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44799: 28.0.50; Calc: Meter not printed as \text in latex output
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:13:07 +0100

23 nov. 2020 kl. 15.20 skrev Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>:

> You are probably right.  Why don't we then just print all symbol names
> as we do for units now?  In mathematical contexts variables like in $v$
> are printed as Calc currently prints units.

It's a matter of taste -- most (La)TeX users probably prefer variables in italic as usual.

For that matter, Calc's unit typesetting has more flaws that you may want to fix while you are at it. It omits the space between the number and the unit, normally written something like $9.8\ \mathrm{m/s^2}$. It also gives the unsightly \frac{23 m}{s} instead of the expected 23\ \mathrm{m/s}.

> There are variants of the latin alphabet including the same letters
> looking a bit different.

Right. I don't know how often they are used in Calc formulae though, but why not.

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