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

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Am 09.10.2013 19:36, schrieb Ethan A Merritt:
>
> 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?

You could wrap the format in $...$ only if it contains only formatting 
specifiers (%...), and these mustn't output any letter (the 'e' in the 
scientific notation should by typeset upright etc.).

This would also break, if one uses macros to format the labels.

Christoph