From: Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>
Cc: NTG-CONTEXT <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: sqrt
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:39:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <362A0BB9.858F932B@gmx.de> (raw)
Hi Hans,
> 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.
It does. But {a \over b} does as well and we have also \fraction{a}{b}
defined in ConTeXt; moreover it is easier to remember \sqrt{x} and
\sqrt[3]{x} than
having \sqrt{x} and \root3\of x
> (2) \sqrt is a plain tex macro, which we cannot simply redefine.
Agreed.
> (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.
{\root3\of{}} is but {\root3\of x} isn't that strange.
[I wrongly wrote \sqrt[n]{x} = \root x\of n in a privious mail, it's in
LaTeX of cause: \sqrt{x} = \sqrt{x} and \sqrt[n]{x} = {\root n\of x}
> 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.
Agreed. But we should also look at AMSTeX/AMSLaTeX, but I'm sure Taco
will do so anyway.
Tobias
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1998-10-18 15:39 Tobias Burnus [this message]
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1998-10-19 8:09 sqrt Taco Hoekwater
1998-10-17 20:48 sqrt Hans Hagen
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