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Topic: [isabelle] Isabelle2016-RC0: font size of diamond symbol


view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 22 2022 at 12:27):

From: Andreas Lochbihler <andreas.lochbihler@inf.ethz.ch>
Dear Makarius,

While trying out Isabelle2016-RC0, I noticed that the symbol for \<diamond> is now typeset
much larger than in Isabelle2015. Has this change been intentional? I use the diamond
symbol a lot (for applicative functor syntax) and I found the smaller symbol much less
invasive. (I feel it is also closer to the standard \diamond symbol in LaTeX.) I've
attached a screenshot with both versions of Isabelle. (Ubuntu Linux 14.04, jEdit text font
is IsabelleText at size 14).

Best,
Andreas
diamond.png

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 22 2022 at 12:29):

From: Makarius <makarius@sketis.net>
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Andreas Lochbihler wrote:

While trying out Isabelle2016-RC0, I noticed that the symbol for
\<diamond> is now typeset much larger than in Isabelle2015. Has this
change been intentional?

Yes, see

changeset: 62006:ebb03c0fa686
user: wenzelm
date: Thu Dec 31 12:20:10 2015 +0100
files: lib/fonts/IsabelleText.sfd lib/fonts/IsabelleTextBold.sfd
description:
proper diamond from lasy10;

"Proper" means the rendering of \<diamond> corresponds to \<box>, for
typical use in temporal logics. The traditional situation in
lib/texinputs/isabellesym.sty and its group "logic" in etc/symbols
supports this interpretation.

I use the diamond symbol a lot (for applicative functor syntax) and I
found the smaller symbol much less invasive.

There is a small diamond in the IsabelleText font as well. Historically
it was assigned to \<struct> but that has lost its purpose. So in
Isabelle/0046bacc5f5b, I have now added a newly interpreted symbol
\<diamondop> to use that glyph.

The very few applications that did use \<diamond> as infix operator are
already updated, notably in AFP/363fdbc2f28c.

Makarius


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