From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [OT] intelligent commas in math (in LaTeX)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:36:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsCT+oX1AMVyggFwZeBak9Wk3+rmn26+ssvH6b_kYtJ7wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1109291210330.17969@nqv-gnoyrg>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> http://tug.org/pracjourn/2011-1/beccari.html
>
> Short summary: This allows the comma in $1, 2, 3$ to be have as punctuation
> comma (similar to \setupmathematics[autopunct=no]) and
> $1,23$ to behave as decimal comma (similar to
> \setupmatematics[autopunct=yes]). Since it is targeting pdftex and xetex
> engines, it makes , an active char in mathmode and redefines it as a macro
> that uses look ahead to check if the next token is a digit.
>
> In principle a cleaner implementation is possible in luatex (without using
> active characters), but I am not completely sure about this. It will be
> better to handle this as part of \mnum macro.
>
> Aditya
Hm, can you explain this a bit ?
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 20:06 Mojca Miklavec
2011-09-29 16:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-09-30 7:36 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2011-09-30 9:04 ` Philipp A.
2011-10-01 2:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-10-01 6:16 ` luigi scarso
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