Re: support for "SUBSCRIPT THREE" etc. ?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> Microsoft implmented something like this in newer versions of Word. See the
> developer's blog for more detials.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2009/05/07/entering-math-via-the-linear-format.aspx 

Well, we can consider supporting linear math ..

\unexpanded\def\startmathzone
   {\ifvmode
      \Ustartdisplaymath
      \let\stopmathzone\Ustopdisplaymath
    \else
      \Ustartmath
      \let\stopmathzone\Ustopmath
    \fi}

\defineactivecharacter "23A8 \startmathzone
\defineactivecharacter "23AC \stopmathzone

\catcode"3016=\begingroupcatcode
\catcode"3017=\endgroupcatcode


\utfchar{"23A8}x^\utfchar{"3016}1+2\utfchar{"3017}\utfchar{"23AC}


The question is if we do it this way using a special math catcode 
regime, but that does not work when we pass it as argument unless we 
mess around with some math codes - like prime does) or use a parser 
(which is not that hard to do and is needed for things like sin/cos anyway)

i'll have a look at it (given that it's a frozen 'standard')

Hans



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