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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Replace \\mathcircled by \\textcircled","articleBody":"Follow-up to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/7710: mathtext provides \\mathcircled, which is not a real latex command, causing various issues.  Instead of trying to invent our own dialect of latex, mathtext should be changed to parse \\textcircled, which *is* a builtin latex command.  Possibly \\mathcircled could then be deprecated.\r\n\r\n(Once this is fixed, #7710 should be reopened and merged.)\r\n\r\nEdit: note, though, that \\mathcircled circles each letter separately, whereas \\textcircled draws a single circle.  In fact \\mathcircled is implemented as using the \"enclosed alphanumerics\" unicode block (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_Alphanumerics) (see mathtext_data.py) and was introduced in a567601 specifically for this purpose.  In these conditions, I'm not sure there's anything we can do about them.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2017-07-11T05:32:48.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/8862/matplotlib/issues/8862"}