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[Chris Palmer <cpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Weir wrote:
> > Yes, that seems to work.
> >
> > Here's one more patch to review - this one allows me to type exciting
> > expressions like -1 and 𝛑/2 into aesthete and not get an error.
>
> Works fine for me - was that a 0.7 specific error? sec(-1) worked fine for
> me anyhow with 0.6
I think probably due to 0.7, since (I think) they worked fine before.

> > I've also attempted uploading some defs to the downpatrick branch - let me
> > know if that's caused any problems.
>
> Seems to have worked perfectly. Are there any other standard functions to
> explicitly define in XML that are generally written without brackets (or,
> in Aesthete terms, auto-bracketing) or otherwise wouldn't come across right
> using the standard Ctrl+( syntax? Functions with Greek letter names, or
> other unicode symbols, for a start but it seems 0.6 has a relatively small
> core library (at least compared to 0.7).
>
> P

There's cot, cosec (and their inverses), and all the hyperbolic versions 
of the standard trigonometric functions. They're all in mpmath. There 
may be other trig functions (most notably sinc) we could add.

I see there's some recognition of log - does that need a XML file? What 
about the square root function - I notice sqrt works, but do we need an 
XML for that one too? (I guess that's a unicode symbol, yeah?) Of course 
if we type sqrt we probably _do_ want the brackets, unless that gets 
converted to the correct symbol on the fly.

If you want to expand Ctrl+( to send aesthete into function detection 
(you may have already done so!), it could also be used for exponentiation...

Chris.