From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: strange output in math display mode
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <567AC336.5080004@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151222122445.54aeae16@cea.fr>
On 12/22/2015 8:24 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> Wolfgang,
>
> Can you explain to us why it should be preferable for ConTeXt users to
> employ \frac12 rather than the native TeX construction {1\over 2}?
> I understand that the macro \frac does some additional trickery but the
> two constructions should *always* yield identical results (when
> keyed-in properly).
>
> Of course, Donald Knuth disagrees with \frac from the point of view
> of the aesthetics of the syntax.
Are you sure he disagrees? For instance \frac {12} {34} is less code
than { {12} \over {34} } and all over the texbook (and web code)
shortcuts are used. Afaik his idea of TeX is that users should do what
they like best.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-23 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-21 13:01 Jeong Dal
2015-12-21 13:14 ` Otared Kavian
2015-12-21 14:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-12-22 19:24 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-12-22 22:30 ` Aditya Mahajan
2015-12-23 2:19 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-12-23 9:17 ` Hans Hagen
2015-12-23 15:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-12-23 9:13 ` Hans Hagen
2015-12-23 15:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-12-23 18:04 ` Alan BRASLAU
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