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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: support for "SUBSCRIPT THREE" etc. ?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:48:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A66C465.6040006@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0907220825580.35406@MacBook-2.local>

Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> What about an analog of "ucs" LaTeX package,
> when Unicode math subscripts (and other symbols) in TeX file are replaced
> by "\sub{3}" etc., regardless of the font used for typesetting?

the reverse mapping is doable and on the agenda (normally i do such 
things when i run into it in a project)

> It will give WYSIWYG-like appearance of the input file on the screen
> in the editor using Unicode font and will not bring the mess deep into 
> ConTeXt?

well, editors is another case as not all fonts used in editors have such 
characters so your file becomes quite unportable unless the editor 
implements some fallback mechanism

there's also a subscript font feature but often such features are 
implemented incomplete in fonts (like frac) and quite unuseable unless 
more logic in the engine is added (again, something that i will look 
into when i have a reason)

> Is such thing doable?
> (Not making a set of mappings for presonal use, but proper package
> for public consumption?)

it would be core functionality as it involved manupulating the internal 
math node lists

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-21  9:54 Peter Münster
2009-07-21 10:27 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-07-21 10:38   ` Matthijs Kooijman
2009-07-21 21:09     ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-21 10:50   ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-07-21 21:10     ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-22  4:42       ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-07-22  5:47         ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-07-22 11:07           ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-22  7:48         ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-07-21 11:19   ` Peter Münster
2009-07-21 14:55     ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-07-21 11:27 ` Peter Münster

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