Re: Deprecated $…$ for inline math?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 2/17/2016 8:31 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:
> I agree totally with Alan in saying that the inline math signals $\cdots$ should NEVER be left out from ConTeXt, or even become deprecated.

that was never the intention (as one can always run in asciimode) but 
what's being discussed here is more robust tagging (could be for editor 
lexing or other purposes)

also, but don't tell alan, there is this:

\m[i:tight]{....}

i:default, i:tight, i:half, i:fixed

> Indeed many people move mathematical texts from one file to another one, in order to be able to typeset or print it either with ConTeXt, or other macro-packages. Other situations include when one is collaborating with other people using TeX, where inline math between two $ signs  is now well established. Also in many situations people may use ConTeXt  for well presented documents, presentations and so forth, while the same text may be published in a scientific journal where one has to use their own formats, usually an ugly flavor of LaTeX, since, unfortuantely, up to now I don’t know of any mathematical journal where one can submit a TeX file written with ConTeXt macro-package.

and even if dollars were just dollars one could easily make then 
math-shift characters again

\catcode`\$ = 3

(or pounds on an brittish keyboard or ...)

btw, in math mode some chars are special too (primes for instance, a 
headache character)

> Best regards: OK
>
>> On 16 Feb 2016, at 20:18, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:59:58 +0100
>> Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> wrote:
>>
>>>> What sort of needs for structure could \m address for inline math?
>>>> Clearly, an equation to which one might want to have a reference
>>>> math should appear rather as displayed math.
>>>
>>> While I agree on that one, writing \math{x^2} clearly states what it
>>> is. TeX tradition aside, dollar signs make no sense here and you
>>> have to manually match beginning and end. Braces are matched
>>> automatically (probably depends on the editor as well).
>>
>> \math{x²} states what it is. However \m{x²} is cryptic and, although
>> only two characters longer than $x²$, is infinitely less readable than
>> the dollar-delimited variant, even now to MS/Word users who have ever
>> used the equation editor.
>>
>> When typing sentences containing lots of math, having many \math{}
>> commands becomes unwieldy, but, in the end, this becomes a
>> question of personal taste.
>>
>> Alan
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