Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.

[Tassilo Horn]

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?

Bye,
Tassilo