From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior in math mode: < and minus sign give leftarrow
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:41:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190410084128.71382ba5@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C9B6A12-6086-4063-9EBE-BF2BF0086FEB@gmail.com>
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:09:31 +0200
Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem of such an usual default is also with newcomers who would not know about this feature in ConTeXt: when one writes maths one would not guess that typing an inequality like $n < -1$ would end up in $n \leftarrow 1$. And writing such inequalities is very common… while \leftarrow is used seldom in a mathematical text.
> So I think having the default collapsing=1 would be more logical, and more in line with the spirit of TeX.
>
> I hope Aditya will be convinced…
And since we have utf-8 input, such "features" are anachronistic and should not be on by default. ←
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-10 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 7:21 Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 7:40 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2019-04-10 7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 8:09 ` Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 14:41 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2019-04-10 12:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-04-10 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 7:57 ` Otared Kavian
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