defining * (concatenation) resulting in LaTeXString

[tpapp]

Currently * for Tuple{LatexString, AbstractString} goes through the default method for AbstractStrings, returning a String.

I wonder if it would make sense to define

Base.:*(a::LaTeXString, b::AbstractString) = latexstring(a, b)

and similarly for the reversed order.

The issue came up when I was constructing plot labels in a function, eg

latexstring(L"$\alpha$", " for men")

which is of course OK but * may be more compact.

[tpapp]

Thinking about it, perhaps

Base.:*(a::LaTeXString, b::AbstractString) = LaTeXString(a.s * b)

and similar would be better. The automatic appending of $s is not always the best choice.

[stevengj]

That seems reasonable