Re: Feature request: configurable \times/\cdot and a bit about %h

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 09 October, 2013 15:26:29 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> What about something more in the spirit of decimalsign?
>     set decimalsign ','

That doesn't really seem any easier than "set format".
Either way you have to specify what you want if it's not already
the default.

> This would allow a much better flexibility, also because one wouldn't
> need to change the format at all. With your suggestion one would need
> to set both
>     set format x "%H"
>     set format y "%H"
> and maybe at some other places displaying numerical values while
> setting multiplication sign could be done once and for all.

"set format '%H'" is sufficient.  You don't need to set it separately for  x and y.  



A related question:

At the moment the new code checks for TERM_IS_LATEX and if so
replaces the default format "%h" with "$%h$".   I.e. it uses the same
format but wraps it in $...$ so that LaTeX uses numerical mode.
Would it be a good idea to _always_ do this?   Or maybe always do
it if the format does not already contain $ signs?

	Ethan