Re: Feature request: Show the characters corresponding to the LaTeX commands displayed in minibuffer.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 4:47 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 4:38 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 2:02 PM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > sorry, attached is a patch which can actually be applied.
> >
> > Thank you. As shown in the attachment, I confirmed that your patch is valid:
> >
> > werner@X10DAi-00:~/.emacs.d/straight/repos/auctex$ patch tex.el <
> > ~/annotation.patch
> >
> > Then start Emacs. The effect in the attachment will appear. But we
> > have many different LaTeX commands, each of which requires a different
> > annotation, so this is still a rather arduous and tedious work.
>
> I mean, if this works, maybe a lisp script can be created to complete
> the work in batches.

Another problem is: Some LaTeX commands correspond to specific code
points/characters, some are only modifiers, say, \boldsymbol. For the
latter, it's impossible to display the corresponding code
points/character.

HZ