Mercurial > octave
changeset 24181:379efee40924 stable
doc: Update manual to explain \deg and \circ symbols (bug #52287).
* plot.txi: Add new subsubsection to explain why \circ and \deg are different.
author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
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date | Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:03:18 -0700 |
parents | fadab2fc567f |
children | abf23a479369 63fc7a75a3d7 |
files | doc/interpreter/plot.txi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi Wed Sep 27 03:58:28 2017 -0500 +++ b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi Sat Oct 28 18:03:18 2017 -0700 @@ -958,6 +958,15 @@ @end tex @end float +@subsubsection Degree Symbol +@cindex Degree Symbol + +Conformance to both @TeX{} and @sc{matlab} with respect to the @code{\circ} +symbol is impossible. While @TeX{} translates this symbol to @w{Unicode 2218} +(U+2218), @sc{matlab} maps this to @w{Unicode 00B0} (U+00B0) instead. Octave +has chosen to follow the @TeX{} specification, but has added the additional +symbol @code{\deg} which maps to the degree symbol (U+00B0). + @node Printing and Saving Plots @subsection Printing and Saving Plots @cindex plotting, saving and printing plots