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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 22:01:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C6313F.6030704@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsZO8ktHTHexZLe0H4jojQedQsUyxxOaktZ3dVN_+cEdpg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/18/2016 9:37 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 18 February 2016 at 10:22, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>> this brings up the question: would users (here) start using real math
>> unicode input if we had a monospace math font?
>
> On Mac (TextMate, but I assume other editors would behave the same)
> the system probably does some character substitution, so as long as I
> have any font that contains that particular character, I can see that
> character in the editor. There is no need for a special huge font
> because the system takes care of it to some extent. This is probably
> different on Windows and Linux though, so I cannot say that it
> wouldn't matter, it just wouldn't matter to me as long as I'm using OS
> X.

a proper mono spaced fonts (a gyre project btw) has the advantage of 
consisten tlook as well as being monospaced and it can also used for 
manuals on typesetting math

> I have my own keyboard with Greek letters mapped to AltGr+g+"latin
> equivalent of the letter". So I always use Greek letters rather than
> \alpha, \beta, ... to typeset symbols. Those are easier to read than
> \controlsequences. But I probably wouldn't bother entering "unicode
> math" characters for Greek letters until I would have to deal with
> frequent mixes of different styles (italic, bold, ...) which would
> also introduce the need for an easy input method.

in scite i used the lua extension interface for creating a language 
strip (so alphabets per selectable language including all math stuff)

> I ofter use a bunch of other symbols directly (like \sim, logic
> symbols, ...), but honestly I cannot imagine typesetting math
> exclusively in Unicode.

sure, because there are concepts like \left \right an dthings with 
limits and such (and multi-character sub/superscripts are to be {}'d)

> Mojca
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 21:01 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
2016-02-18  9:57                         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 20:37                         ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-02-18 21:01                           ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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