From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/184 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: sqrt Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:48:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <36290289.F7C7A47C@wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391052 21877 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:37:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Tobias Burnus , NTG-CONTEXT Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:184 Hi Tobias, I've been giving this \sqrt some thinking. (1) I think \root ... \of ... is not that bad at all. It follows the flow of thinking. (2) \sqrt is a plain tex macro, which we cannot simply redefine. (3) Personally I always think of sqrt as being the root 2 of something, and therefore \sqrt[x]{} is (correct me if I'm wrong) a rather strange one. On the other hand, I like the idea of a more verbose syntax. Maybe Taco has some ideas on this, especially when we look at math ML and the possibility to map tex on MML vise vera. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | mail: pragma@wxs.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------