From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: math symbol for "is an element of"
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 21:35:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c2bc172-5551-9e03-d596-60dd3db56596@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001d6b3b1$6d73b090$485b11b0$@projectivespace.com>
type@projectivespace.com schrieb am 05.11.2020 um 21:22:
> A quick question for the ConTeXt mailing list:
>
> Other than typing it directly (or cutting and pasting it), how does one get
> the character ∈ (in case this gets garbled in emailing, this is supposed to
> be the mathematical symbol that looks more or less like an epsilon, and
> which is the mathematical symbol for "is an element of" a set).
>
> \showmathfontcharacters gives the following information about it:
>
> U+02208: ∈ ∈ element of
> width: 524262, height: 426798, depth: 33798, italic: 0
> mathclass: relation, mathname: in
>
> I'm not completely sure how to read this information, but if I read it
> correctly, perhaps this character should be gotten with \in. Also, the Basic
> Math page of the Wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/basic) states
> that you should be able to type this character with "\in". But that doesn't
> work (even inside a formula), since \in is used for references in ConTeXt.
> And in fact the link on the Basic Math page for \in takes you to the
> explanation of \in as used for ConTeXt references.
>
> This is a very common character in mathematics, so I wanted to ask: what is
> the recommended way to type this character? (I'm hoping to avoid having to
> cut and paste the character into the document every time I want to use it.
> And I don't have a utf enabled keyboard that would allow me to type this
> symbol readily from the keyboard.)
Do you have a example where \in fails?
\starttext
\m {A \in B}
\startformula
A \in B
\stopformula
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 20:22 type
2020-11-05 20:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2020-11-05 23:13 ` type
2020-11-05 20:44 ` Hans Åberg
2020-11-05 23:24 ` type
2020-11-06 8:09 ` Hans Hagen
2020-11-06 16:30 ` type
2020-11-06 17:40 ` Sylvain Hubert
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