Reduced Planck constant should be italic

[AshtonSBradley]

In CairoMakie, when I do

ax.xlabel = L"\hbar\omega"

I get this

which is not correct as \hbar should be italic like this:

[AshtonSBradley]

Is there any fix or workaround for this? I don't think I have ever encountered a roman \hbar in quantum literature... it stands out as quite anomalous

[Kolaru]

Took me some times to find the correct glyph, but should be fixed in 0.5.6 I'm realeasing now.

[AshtonSBradley]

Thanks for the fix!!

[apoorvpotnis]

Planck's constant is a fixed numerical quantity since 2019. Shouldn't it be upright as variables are italic and constants upright, according to the ISO norms?

[Kolaru]

I'm trying to follow TeX convention as they are the most used. So the upright hbar should be available through \mathrm{\hbar}.

[AshtonSBradley]

yeah, for quantum theory papers upright looks awful. Good to have it available as upright somehow, but personally I am glad to see italic default as it is used universally