From: "Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Second derivative ''
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 17:41:17 +0100 [thread overview]
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:36 PM Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > On 3/4/2020 11:44 PM, Weber, Matthias wrote:
> >> Dear List,
> >>
> >> \starttext
> >> \startformula
> >> \left(f\right)'' = f''
> >> \stopformula
> >> \stoptext
> >>
> >> has the second apostrophe set too low. This is in MKIV on ConTeXt live
> as
> > well as in my slightly older version.
> >> What is the “right” way to typeset a second derivative?
> > you have to turn on
> >
> > \setupmathematics
> > [collapsing=3]
> >
> > but it has the side effect of also collapsing more:
> >
> > $x'' >= 10$
> >
> > (which is why the mechanism is currently turned off by default)
> >
> > i'll think about an option that only does some specific ones only
> >
> > (btw, i love tex but these primes are a bit painful due to th eorriginal
> > approach which has lead mixtures of (1) raised in the font and/or raised
> > in the engine, (2) them being superscripts but not really, (3) fonts
> > therefore doing it inconsistently, (4) some parsing related to multiple
> > scripts, (5) double, tripple, etc primes being real unicode characters
> > but spaced singles in traditional tex (which itself then introduces some
> > size juggling) ... i could proabbly write a few pages about it)
>
> So what's the best way to input them: using \prime, \prime\prime, etc.?
>
>
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And what is the way if one also want indices:
$f''_{xx}$ or $f_{xx}''$ or ... ?
I want the indices under the primes
/Mikael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-05 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 22:44 Weber, Matthias
2020-03-04 22:53 ` Henri Menke
2020-03-05 9:12 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-05 15:26 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-05 16:36 ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-03-05 16:41 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist [this message]
2020-03-05 17:33 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-05 19:48 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2020-03-05 20:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-05 20:38 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2020-03-05 17:29 ` Hans Hagen
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