Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>> It doesn't compose \alpha2 so that's already handled correctly, no?
>>>>
>>>> No, IMHO, it should appear as α2.
>>>
>>> In theory, yes.  Unless the document uses expl3 or the user plays with
>>> catcodes and then this could be one valid single macro.  So I'd rather
>>> rely on having some non-word character in between.
>>
>> There is quite a lot of math around that does not bother with spurious
>> spaces.
>
> Yes, right.  So now \alpha2 is indeed displayed as α2 with
> prettify-symbols-mode.
>
> Do you have any idea how to get $\alpha$ working also with AUCTeX's
> font-latex.el where $ are treated as string quotes?

No, font-latex and font lock in general is out of my depth.

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David Kastrup