Re: Calligraphic letters in Mark IV

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 24-1-2010 22:17, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> I think that we should have \calligraphic for text calligraphic fonts
> only. For math, plain tex had \cal as a font switch, MkIV has
> \mathscript and \mathcal. I am not sure that we need another font switch
> in math.
>
> I know, that in mkii \calligraphic is available in math mode, but I did
> not like that either. Since you are asking for my opinion, I think that
> it should go :-). For backward compatibility, we can add appropriate
> definition of \calligraphic to m-mkii module.

ok, just send me a patch then

> While we are at this topic, I think that we should change the
> definitions of \mathbf, \mathtf, etc from being a font switch to being a
> grouped command (to be more in tune with ams convetions). So, in
> math-ini.mkiv we can have
>
> diff --git a/math-ini.mkiv b/math-ini.mkiv
> index 17b0205..65bd43c 100644
> --- a/math-ini.mkiv
> +++ b/math-ini.mkiv
> @@ -72,23 +72,27 @@
>
 > ...
 >
> What do you think?

i have no problem with that ... so if no one comes up with good 
arguments against it we can do that

Hans


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