Re: \| should give two || and not one

["Keith J. Schultz" <keithjschultz@web.de>]

Hi All,

In a way, it is correct that for compatibility reasons and and convert
it is good to keep the old syntax.

Yet, ConTeXt is suppose to be more natural. 

Personally, I find some of the names used in TeX and LaTeX often
hard to find. Whenever, I needed a function or symbol I to often
go look it up. I mean that \vert and \Vert are still cryptic. They can stand
for abs, for all in, etc. ..

Me, I prefer names that reflect the their functions, 

regards
	Keith.

Am 18.02.2013 um 10:51 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:42 AM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Indeed, luigi, but is that what you expect?
>> Hm, hard to say for me.
>> I find natural to use \vert and \Vert or, if possible, | and || .
>> LaTeXt users find natural that  \| is ||, but I don't see, as a ConTeXt
>> user,  a particular meaning in \| .
>> 
> 
> I think that since \| is defined as \Vert in the TeXbook and everyone
> writing mathematics in LaTeX are used to \| to mean \Vert there is no
> reason to have different behaviour in ConTeXt.
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