Re: Math literal colon

[Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com>]

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> On 24 Jul 2015, at 10:30, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 7/20/2015 6:06 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:

>>> On 20 Jul 2015, at 16:40, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Hans Aberg wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The LaTeX package unicode-math has an option colon=literal, which makes it behave as in math functions (as in example below). Has ConTeXt a similar option?
>>> 
>>> No. You have to use \colon.
>> 
>> It would be nice with such an option, as it helps the readability of the input files.
> 
> already for some years i'm thinking of something similar to openmath dictionaries i.e. in many cases when one writes math it is in some field that is consistent within a document, say logic or engineering
> 
> it is rather trivial to support something
> 
> \setupmathematics[domain=logic]
> 
> or so, where we automatically relate the math class with the symbols used, something that becomes more important once we start coding in unicode instead of using names
> 
> but ... in order to provide this, i need information about useful categories

Unicode provides one such category. The reason is all math characters are added and in that process analyzed. I worked with Taco on that in the late 1990s.

So one main option, which might be the simplest, to assume that the input is UTF-8. Oen can the added ASCII command names, based on the Unicode names. In addition some options for special needs and legacy.


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