From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Deprecated $…$ for inline math?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:18:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216121814.76b1331a@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216165958.32d19e22@homerow>
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:59:58 +0100
Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> wrote:
> > What sort of needs for structure could \m address for inline math?
> > Clearly, an equation to which one might want to have a reference
> > math should appear rather as displayed math.
>
> While I agree on that one, writing \math{x^2} clearly states what it
> is. TeX tradition aside, dollar signs make no sense here and you
> have to manually match beginning and end. Braces are matched
> automatically (probably depends on the editor as well).
\math{x²} states what it is. However \m{x²} is cryptic and, although
only two characters longer than $x²$, is infinitely less readable than
the dollar-delimited variant, even now to MS/Word users who have ever
used the equation editor.
When typing sentences containing lots of math, having many \math{}
commands becomes unwieldy, but, in the end, this becomes a
question of personal taste.
Alan
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 8:22 Nicola
2016-02-16 8:54 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 15:21 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 15:59 ` Marco Patzer
2016-02-16 16:20 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 19:12 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 18:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-16 19:18 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2016-02-17 7:31 ` Otared Kavian
2016-02-17 9:44 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-17 16:32 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 18:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-17 20:45 ` Rogers, Michael K
2016-02-17 22:18 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 23:40 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-02-18 0:38 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-18 9:22 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18 9:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 20:37 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-02-18 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18 9:16 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18 9:25 ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-02-16 16:16 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 8:56 ` Marco Patzer
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