From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: mathradical defaults to "normal", should it perhaps be "default"?
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 22:37:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170607223716.778bb408@boo.hsd1.co.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <705a83da-5db1-b52f-38c1-1c43db21a8cf@wxs.nl>
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:03:35 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> > I have been massacred on this list for ever preferring \over to
> > \frac...
>
> and because of the many {} you then need you get these mismatch
> errors ... but, you can make
>
> \unexpanded\def\fakefrac#1#2{{{#1}\over{#2}}}
The syntax {a \over b} is much more readable (to a mathematician) than
\frac{a}{b} which looks fine to a programmer.
This has nothing to say about how one or the other performs, it is a
purely syntactical preference.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-08 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-05 8:24 Mikael P. Sundqvist
2017-06-07 14:50 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2017-06-07 15:12 ` Otared Kavian
2017-06-07 15:45 ` Alan BRASLAU
2017-06-07 15:53 ` Meer, Hans van der
2017-06-07 16:03 ` Hans Hagen
2017-06-08 4:37 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2017-06-07 16:09 ` Hans Hagen
2017-06-07 17:31 ` Hans Hagen
2017-06-07 18:27 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
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