From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@MIT.EDU>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>, ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \triangledown placed too low in Palatino
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:12:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871twyaj06.fsf@approx.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534CD686.6010306@wxs.nl>
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>> So \triangle is a math ord and \bigtriangleup a math bin.
>>
>> For compatibility, that should probably stay true in ConTeXt too---even
>> the low placement of \bigtriangledown, which I don't understand but
>> which does reproduce plain TeX's placement.
>
> why? if compatibility means 'not useable' we should fix it
Thus, a question for the purer mathematicians on the list: Are there
uses for the lower placement of \bigtriangledown? As a physicists, I
have used that shape only for the gradient operator (for which one has
\nabla). But maybe it is used in, say, category theory with a lower
placement?
-Sanjoy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-15 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-10 21:49 Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-04-10 22:28 ` Jannik Voges
2014-04-11 0:28 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-04-11 3:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-04-11 4:06 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-04-11 4:10 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-04-11 4:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-04-11 5:24 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2014-04-11 13:13 ` Otared Kavian
2014-04-13 2:44 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-04-13 16:47 ` Hans Hagen
2014-04-14 9:30 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-04-15 6:49 ` Hans Hagen
2014-04-15 12:12 ` Sanjoy Mahajan [this message]
2014-04-16 3:54 ` remove full stop after a title ending with punctuation Peng Zhang
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