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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re:  Deprecated $…$ for inline math?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:40:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C504F7.8070703@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160217151828.4bc45777@cea.fr>

On 02/17/2016 11:18 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:08:31 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> you're an american citizen who likes $x^2$ but to call if
>> beautiful ... €x^2€ nor £x^2£ (in 8 bit encodings / local keyboards
>> times) all look bad ... 
> 
> Hans, you forgot: ¥x^2¥, ₽x^2₽, ₱x^2₱, ₹x^2₹, ...
> Besides, U+0024 comes from ASCII and all programmers know that it is a
> perfectly valid and useful character. 

Of course, and even ₧x²₧ or even ₯x²₯...

>> we need a proper begin/end symbol .. 
> 
> Too bad Knuth did not choose ¡x^2! 

Excuse me, Alan, this is exclamation in Spanish (and only in Spanish).

Just out of curiosity, why do you think he should have chosen that?

Pablo
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16  8:22 Nicola
2016-02-16  8:54 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 15:21   ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 15:59     ` Marco Patzer
2016-02-16 16:20       ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 19:12         ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 18:50       ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-16 19:18       ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17  7:31         ` Otared Kavian
2016-02-17  9:44           ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-17 16:32             ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 18:24               ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-17 20:45                 ` Rogers, Michael K
2016-02-17 22:18                 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 23:40                   ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2016-02-18  0:38                     ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-18  9:22                       ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18  9:57                         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 20:37                         ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-02-18 21:01                           ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18  9:16                     ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18  9:25                       ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-02-16 16:16     ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16  8:56 ` Marco Patzer

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