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bug#45917: [PATCH] Use big brackets in Calc in big mode
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#45917: [PATCH] Use big brackets in Calc in big mode |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:37:19 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> The attached patch makes Calc use big brackets in Big mode when the
> Unicode characters are available. This makes for prettier display
> which is sort of the point of using Big mode. It follows previous use
> of Unicode characters for square root and integral signs.
Makes sense to me, but...
> As far as I can tell the only reasons for not applying this would be
> that it is common with fonts or terminals where this doesn't look
> good,
... would it be possible to have a fallback if the display doesn't
support these characters?
> or that the resulting formula isn't recognised by the
> embedded-mode parser (which is already the case with several other
> constructs).
Yeah. Or there could be a variable to allow the user to not use these
fancy brackets if this is important for them?
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