text in mathematics

[Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>]

Hello ConTeXt users,

Does it drive you crazy to see TeX users write $t = time$?
(I see this all of the time by LaTeX users in Beamer presentations.)

One can do better writing $t = {\rm time}$ (maybe)
or in ConTeXt $t = \mathrm{time}$.
Sometimes, too, I might write $t = \text{time}$.

We also have the commands \mathematics{} that can be used in place of
the TeX shorthand $...$, and this also has the shortcut \m{...}.

I thought that it might be useful to have an equivalent escape, to be
used as $t = \t{time}$. What do other users think?

OK, \m{t = \t{time}} might be a bit funky... 


Alan


P.S. I proposed doing this via
    \let\t\mathrm
but Hans tells me that this is not good, as \mathrm{} does not give
proper font processing, so implementation of \t{} would be something
different...
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