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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re:  Deprecated $…$ for inline math?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:22:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C58D42.6070303@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160217173830.4d79493c@cea.fr>

On 2/18/2016 1:38 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:40:39 +0100
> Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
>
>> Excuse me, Alan, this is exclamation in Spanish (and only in Spanish).
>
> Bigre ! Of course, I know that.
>
>> Just out of curiosity, why do you think he should have chosen that?
>
> I was attempting to make some fun with this thread.

i have always been puzzled by the fact that when the pc showed up the 
keyboard was not enhanced .. for some reason we kept this numeric 
addendum (i remember the dec terminals that has this removable rubber 
cover for the special editor keys) and didn't make that a set of keys 
handy for editing (ok, try doing tex on a czech or german keyboard where 
the backslash is kind of hidden ... or those keyboards with no $ key, 
that must be hard on mathematicians)

this brings up the question: would users (here) start using real math 
unicode input if we had a monospace math font?

> More seriously, \( expression \) was already an attempt to come up with
> something "better". I am risking to state that $expression$ and
> \math{expression} are two good solutions for ConTeXt and that
> \m{expression} is, at best, just useless. Furthermore, any suggestion to

you don't need to use it ...

> depreciate $expression$ is, in my opinion (and apparently in the
> opinion of others), ludicrous.

nobody says that it will disappear (but novel writers can of course make 
$ into your favourite currency symbol)

> P.S. I am a present writing a chapter on mathematics for a small
> introduction on typesetting with ConTeXt, so this discussion is
> highly relevant.

good

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18  9:22 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
2016-02-18  0:38                     ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-18  9:22                       ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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