From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: ggd
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:11:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D00E95.7050800@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <413B5E51-3BBF-40AC-829C-92DC43A7F4A9@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> A very insignificant observation. But in my opinion Hans Hagen is a
> perfectionist, therefore I dare to throw this bone to him.
>
> In Dutch the greatest common divisor is not abbreviated as "gcd" but
> as "ggd".
> It is of course a simple matter to redefine this locally with:
>
> \definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{ggd}}
>
> But the perfectionist would likely expect this to happen
> automagically on \language[nl].
>
> Just mentioned this for fun, don't bother too much.
localizing math is indeed an interesting topic.
\startlanguagespecifics[nl]
\definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{ggd}}
\stoplanguagespecifics
but ... then we need to be complete
Hans
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2006-01-19 17:42 ggd Hans van der Meer
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