From: "Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \| should give two || and not one
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:47:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHy-LL8B_3CQ2SN6uE4SkKbqAE3X5z9+wdgQQ8qyLyjRayEG0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHy-LL_BksP0_mJf6XevCk=B8nHxFsPBqLFPfdSzioa5OjxjTQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist <mickep@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Wim W. Wilhelm <ww.wilhelm@kpnmail.nl> wrote:
>> Dear Mikael,
>>
>> It is TEX.
>>
>> Wim W. Wilhelm
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Wim W. Wilhelm <ww.wilhelm@kpnmail.nl>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> use $\Vert v \Vert$
>>>>
>>>> Wim W. Wilhelm
>>>>
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>
>>>>> \starttext
>>>>> $\|v\|$
>>>>> \stoptext
>>>>>
>>>>> I expect two vertical bars on each side of v, but see only one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested with the latest beta.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Mikael
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your reply, Wim. I guess most/some people writing
>>> mathematics are used to write \| to get double bars from LaTeX, and if
>>> I remember correctly it was also like this in ConTeXt some time ago.
>>>
>>> If this is changed on purpose I can very well use \Vert instead.
>>>
>>> /Mikael
>>>
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> Dear Wim,
>
> oh, sorry. I did not know that TeX set \| to \vert and not \Vert. Then
> probably my memory fails me that \| gave \Vert in earlier versions of
> ConTeXt aswell. I'll have to get used to \Vert, I guess.
>
> /Mikael
Dear Wim,
funny thing is that now that I had a look in my copy of the TeXBook I see
\let\|=\Vert
on page 361.
/Mikael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-15 10:14 Mikael P. Sundqvist
2013-02-15 12:42 ` Wim W. Wilhelm
2013-02-15 12:55 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2013-02-15 15:26 ` Wim W. Wilhelm
2013-02-15 15:37 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2013-02-15 15:47 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist [this message]
2013-02-15 16:19 ` luigi scarso
2013-02-18 9:23 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2013-02-18 9:42 ` luigi scarso
2013-02-18 9:51 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2013-02-19 7:36 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-02-19 9:29 ` Hans Hagen
2013-02-19 9:50 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2013-02-19 10:56 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-02-19 11:06 ` luigi scarso
2013-02-19 12:09 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-02-19 14:00 ` Hans Hagen
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