From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: A problem with autopunctuation
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:03:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121104230354.4bda9aa3@aga-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1211041624550.6831@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Dnia 2012-11-04, o godz. 16:38:53
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> napisał(a):
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> >
> > Am 03.11.2012 um 01:45 schrieb Marcin Borkowski
> > <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>:
> >
> >> If I get it correctly, the following two formulae should render
> >> differently - and they don't. What is going on?
> >>
> >> \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes]
> >>
> >> \starttext
> >>
> >> $(2,5)$ versus $(2, 5)$
> >>
> >> \stoptext
> >
> > Spaces in math mode are ignored because the spacing is controlled
> > by different rules.
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \m{1.2}\par
> > \m{1. 2}\par
> > \m{1 .2}\par
> > \m{1 . 2}\par
> >
> > \blank
> >
> > \m{1,2}
> >
> > \blank
> >
> > \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes]\m{1,2}
> >
> > \stoptext
>
> I always thought that autopunctuation was targetted towards the
> European tradition of using comma as a decimal separator. That
> behavior can be achieved by changing a comma to be an "ord" from a
> "punctuation". However, changing the comma to an "ord" has the
> drawback that you have to explicitly add spaces when comma is needed
> as a punctuation, for example in sets:
>
> \m{A = \{a,\, b,\, c\}}
>
> Autopunctuation is supposed to get around this: if comma is followed
> by a non-space, the comma should behave like an "ord"; if it is
> followed by a space, it should behave like a "punctuation". Clearly
> that is not happening.
+1
This was exactly what I was expecting. (In LaTeX, there's even a
package, called icomma AFAIR, which does more or less this.) As I
often write mathematical texts in Polish, such a feature would be
*very* useful for me. I could use \digits or \unit, but this has its
drawbacks, too.
> Aditya
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-03 0:45 Marcin Borkowski
2012-11-04 21:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-11-04 21:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-04 22:03 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2012-11-30 12:51 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-30 12:58 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-12-04 12:58 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-03 19:04 Andres Conrado
2012-11-03 20:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2012-11-04 10:04 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-11-04 21:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
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