From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: text in mathematics
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:39:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5B432D41.4000801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180708151110.7b01e402@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
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Hi Alan,
you should at least limit the scope of the command to math mode
\appendtoks
\let\t\mathtext
\let\w\mathword
\to \everymathematics
Wolfgang
> Alan Braslau <mailto:braslau.list@comcast.net>
> 8. Juli 2018 um 23:11
> In many "less-rigorous" uses of equations, there is an abundant need
> to include words (text) in mathematics, and using \mathtext{} or \mbox{}
> or whatever is unwieldy.
>
> Readable subscripts, self-explanatory variable names, etc. might be
> text and not symbols. These situations can be very common. This is why I
> asked (1) what is the right method, and (2) what do others think about
> the shorthand \t{}, similar to the shorthand \m{}?
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:00:00 +0200
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-09 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-07 14:04 Alan Braslau
2018-07-07 16:25 ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-08 19:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2018-07-08 21:00 ` Otared Kavian
2018-07-08 21:11 ` Alan Braslau
2018-07-09 9:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2018-07-09 13:05 ` Hans Hagen
2018-07-09 12:51 ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-09 15:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2018-07-09 19:27 ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-10 15:53 ` Hans Åberg
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