Re: Latin setupmathematics

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 6/16/2016 9:15 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>
>> On 15 May 2016, at 22:06, Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 May 2016, at 20:42, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/15/2016 8:31 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>
>>>>> also, the lack of an upright alphabet in unicode will always make some 'x' in the input either math of text so one also needs to indicate where math starts and ends
>>>>
>>>> As far as Unicode is concerned, the ASCII and Greeks ranges are the upright ones. But those ranges will be used for math italic as long as there are no efficient input methods. Designing ones own keyboard map is a chore with so many math styles.
>>>
>>> well, law, week i heard about emoticons in different colors as well as gender so maybe some day we will have a math upright alphabet to distinguish it from regular latin
>>
>> Doubt it, but I am checking it out:
>> http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2016-May/003632.html
>
> There were no responses from the consortium here, so it means that if one should stick to the Unicode model, where the upright styles are unified with the Basic Latin and Greek groups, \setupmathematics should have options added like:
>   lcletters=[normal|italic], ucletters=[normal|italic]

what is wrong with

\starttext

\setupmathematics[default=normal]

$a = b$

\setupmathematics[default=italic]

$a = \tf b$

\stoptext

(i see no reason for different treatment for lc and uc)


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