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Re: Bug in TeX input mode?
From: |
Teemu Likonen |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in TeX input mode? |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:50:40 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
On 2009-06-17 17:26 (-0400), Chong Yidong wrote:
> Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> \circ in the TeX input mode inserts the following character:
>>
>> character: ○ (9675, #o22713, #x25cb)
>> name: WHITE CIRCLE
>> general-category: So (Symbol, Other)
>>
>> However, we feel like what should have been inserted is this:
>>
>> character: ∘ (8728, #o21030, #x2218)
>> name: RING OPERATOR
>> general-category: Sm (Symbol, Math)
>
> Maybe. But if you look at the TeX output of \circ, the size of the
> circle looks a lot more like ○ than ∘ (at least, when using DejaVu Sans
> Mono, I haven't checked with other fonts). And it seems more reasonable
> for "\circ" to mean WHITE CIRCLE than RING OPERATOR.
I don't know if this experiment has any value but I just compiled a
LaTeX document with $\circ$ to PDF file and then copied the character
from KPDF reader to Emacs. The character looks like this:
character: ◦ (9702, #o22746, #x25e6)
name: WHITE BULLET
general-category: So (Symbol, Other)