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From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Why is `\P` used for not often used ¶? (was: math: too big space between function and argument)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:46:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306331176.10056.67.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B7D54B50-2A6F-4795-8247-004054754F35@googlemail.com>


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On Di, 2011-05-24 at 15:25 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 24.05.2011 um 13:14 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> > to markup the probability measure and the parenthesis around the
> > argument, I defined the following command.
> > 
> > 	\define[1]\P{{\mathbf P}\left( #1 \right)}
> > 
> > Unfortunately the space between the P and the left ( is a little big in
> > my opinion. Is that correct or should/can I fix that somehow?
> 
> You can insert negative kerning with “\!”.
> 
> \define[1]\P{{\mathbf P}\!\left(#1\right)}

Thank you for the quick reply.

> BTW: You redefine the already existing \P (expands to ¶) command.

I should read the log to notice such problems. I guess I will use `\Pr`
then.

But seriously does somebody really need a lot of ¶ in there texts? (If
yes I would be interested when.) If not, why is such a nice command name
reserved for such a purpose?

I guess this has been there for a long time, so redefining would break
too much?


Thanks,

Paul

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 11:14 math: too big space between function and argument Paul Menzel
2011-05-24 13:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-25 13:46   ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2011-05-25 14:27     ` Why is `\P` used for not often used ¶? (was: math: too big space between function and argument) Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-24 13:56 ` math: too big space between function and argument Aditya Mahajan
2011-05-25 13:52   ` Paul Menzel
2011-05-25 15:54     ` Aditya Mahajan

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