ggd

ggd

[Hans van der Meer]

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.

yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer

Re: ggd

[Hans Hagen]

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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