From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: math: too big space between function and argument
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:52:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306331537.10056.72.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1105240948260.3669@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
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On Di, 2011-05-24 at 09:56 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Getting these spaces is tricky; especially if you consider spaces before
> and after the definition. Choose your pick:
>
> \starttext
> \startformula
> A{\mathbf P}\left( ABC \right)B \quad
> A\mathop{\kern\zeropoint\mathbf P}\left( ABC \right)B \quad
> A{\mathbf P}\mathopen{}\left( ABC \right)\mathclose{}B \quad
> A\mathop{\kern\zeropoint\mathbf P}\mathopen{}\left( ABC \right)\mathclose{}B \quad
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
That looks tricky and complex.
> Some information from the mathsets module (which does not work with MkIV).
I hope you or somebody will have time to port that module to MkIV.
> The entry is the latex bug database is not viewable now.
>
> %D The \type{\left} and \type{\right} generate a math atom of type inner,
> %D while for math sets, we want a math open atom. To see the difference,
> %D consider
> %D
> %D \startbuffer
> %D \startformula
> %D 2\left(\frac {3}{4} \right) \qquad \hbox{ vs } \qquad
> %D 2\biggl( \frac {3}{4} \biggr)
> %D \stopformula
> %D
> %D and
> %D
> %D \startformula
> %D \Pr\left(\frac {3}{4} \right) \qquad \hbox{ vs } \qquad
> %D \Pr\biggl( \frac {3}{4} \biggr)
> %D \stopformula
> %D \stopbuffer
> %D \typebuffer
> %D
> %D which gives (notice the spacing before the parenthesis)
> %D
> %D \getbuffer
> %D
> %D I will assume that if \type{text} is something, then
> %D the default behaviour is desirable, if \type{text} is empty, then I add
> %D \type{\mathopen} and \type{\mathclose}. Using \type{\mathopen} to correct
> %D the spacing is due to Frank Mittelbach, see
> %D \hyphenatedurl{http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=latex/3853}
> %D
> %D Mathset module ensures that we get the correct spacing in both cases
> %D \startbuffer
> %D \definemathset[SET][left=(,right=)]
> %D \startformula
> %D 2\SET{\frac{3}{4}} \qquad \hbox{ and } \qquad
> %D \PR{ \frac{3}{4} }
> %D \stopformula
> %D \stopbuffer
> %D \getbuffer[PR] \getbuffer which was typed as \typebuffer
> %D
> %D Also, if its argument is a single character, \type{\mathop} centers it
> to
> %D with respect to the math||axis. Compare the outputs of
> %D
> %D \startbuffer
> %D \ruledhbox{$\mathop{y}\nolimits_x\left\{A\,\middle|\,B\right\}$}
> %D \ruledhbox{$\mathop{\kern\zeropoint y}\nolimits_x\left\{A\,\middle|\,B\right\}$}
> %D \stopbuffer
> %D
> %D \typebuffer
> %D \getbuffer
> %D
> %D I have added a \type{\kern\zeropoint} to prevent that.
Could you explain the advantage over `\!` which Wolfgang suggested at
least for the space after the definition.
In addition, I think AMSTeX defines a command `\DeclareMathOperator` [1]
which takes care of these things.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Advanced_Mathematics#Custom_operators
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 11:14 Paul Menzel
2011-05-24 13:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-25 13:46 ` Why is `\P` used for not often used ¶? (was: math: too big space between function and argument) Paul Menzel
2011-05-25 14:27 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-24 13:56 ` math: too big space between function and argument Aditya Mahajan
2011-05-25 13:52 ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2011-05-25 15:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
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