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Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.


From: Uwe Brauer
Subject: Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:20:47 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux)

>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <address@hidden> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer writes:
   >> Ok, so I have to dig more into the code or hope that somebody in
   >> xemacs-beta could point me out what is the GNU emacs equivalent to those
   >> functions. I still wonder how x-symbol could have worked under GNU
   >> emacs 21, given that extents and specifiers did not exist neither for
   >> emacs 21.


   > Note that it's probably possible to achieve what x-symbol does in 1/5
   > the code and without defining a new charset or glyphs by simply taking
   > advantage of the fact that most (all?) of those symbols are already in
   > Unicode.  I believe there are TeX add-ons that allow you to use them
   > instead of the traditional macros, as well, so you might not even need
   > to fiddle the display of the TeX file at all, and x-symbol would be
   > completely irrelevant.

Do you have any reference, or is this just a guess?




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