From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \textcomma (was Re: Comma separating multiple footnotes)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:31:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F90762F.3030902@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1204191459490.19372@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On 19-4-2012 21:06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>>
>> Don’t use \textcomma in MkIV, it’s a math symbol and doesn’t scale
>> when you change the relative font size.
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> a, b\textcomma\ c
>>
>> {\tfxx a, b\textcomma\ c}
>>
>> {\tfb a, b\textcomma\ c}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> @Hans/Aditya: Is it a good idea to put “textcomma” in the mathspec
>> entry (char-def.lua):
indeed, it's probably some leftover (there might be some more)
> What is textcomma supposed to do? I see that it is defined and used in
> core-mis.mkiv and then redefined in char-def.
>
> My guess is that \textcomma and \textperiod were defined to be
> complementary to \mathcomma and \mathperiod, but this is not consistent
> with rest of the naming convention. (\text... begin text mode commands
> for symbols, and not math mode commands).
>
> Does anyone use \textcomma and \textperiod in math mode? I would suggest
> that we rename them to \puncuationcomma and \punctuationperiod, and add
> \textcomma and \textperiod as text mode commands (and remove the
> definition of \textcomma from core-mis)
the \text* should be just . and , (no math)
I have no clue about the math usage. Just tell me what to patch.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-10 1:14 Comma separating multiple footnotes Kip Warner
2012-04-10 9:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-12 21:34 ` Kip Warner
2012-04-13 13:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-14 0:38 ` Kip Warner
2012-04-17 20:13 ` Hans Hagen
2012-04-18 0:30 ` Kip Warner
2012-04-18 7:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-18 22:56 ` Kip Warner
2012-04-19 10:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-19 18:49 ` Kip Warner
2012-04-19 19:06 ` \textcomma (was Re: Comma separating multiple footnotes) Aditya Mahajan
2012-04-19 20:31 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-04-19 20:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-19 21:12 ` Hans Hagen
2012-04-19 22:11 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-04-20 7:01 ` Hans Hagen
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