From: Gour <ggdasa@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: typesetting underscore
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:11:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080112201124.3ce842d6@gaura-nitai.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0801121245380.21905@nqv-yncgbc>
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:59:39 -0500 (EST)
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> Why does \textunderscore wail? \textunderscore should work fine.
See https://mail.gna.org/public/muse-el-discuss/2008-01/msg00001.html
thread.
> :) This is how it is done in plain TeX, and both LaTeX and ConTeXt
> follow this. If you do not use maths at all, you can say
>
> \catcode`\_ = 11
>
> on the top of your file and then _ will be a letter in both text and
> math mode (which basically means that you will have to use \sb to get
> subscript in math mode.
Hmm, not ideal...
> It is possible to define something along the lines of underscore.sty
> in latex, so that _ is treated as a letter in text mode, and as a
> subscript indicator in math mode, but, read below.
I do not remember having ever problem with underscore in LaTeX.
> Shouldn't such function names be written as \type{gtk_xxxx} when muse
> converts the document to ConTeXt? In that case the _ will be
> preserved.
Right. They will fix default in muse and use \type{_} as value for
underscore.
Thank you for your input.
Sincerely,
Gour
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-12 16:24 Gour
2008-01-12 17:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-01-12 19:11 ` Gour [this message]
2008-01-12 22:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-01-13 22:47 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-13 23:10 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-01-14 8:10 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
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