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country=US; region=Massachusetts; city=Cambridge; latitude=42.3931; longitude=-71.1345; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.3931,-71.1345&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03LOci5Tq - 2fb11bb7b911 - 20140415 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:87016 Archived-At: Hans Hagen 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________