From: "Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: text in mathematics
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 21:27:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB301784-2BC1-4F02-B432-B0217250975A@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.76.44.1807091148030.16742@ervasbepr.pvz.zptvyy.pn>
> On 9 Jul 2018, at 17:48, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Hans Åberg wrote:
>
>> On 8 Jul 2018, at 23:00, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The advantage being that if the above formula appears in an environment such as a Theorem (where the text is typeset in italic, or slanted) the text in the above \mbox will be also in italic or slanted.
>>
>> Math displayed formula text inheriting the style of the text appears in two books from first published in 1966 and 1980 that I checked.
>>
>> So a math text command should probably support that style.
>
> IIRC, that is also the case for the \text command in amsmath.
There might be two commands, one that inherits the text environment style, and one that keeps it in normal.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-09 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-07 14:04 Alan Braslau
2018-07-07 16:25 ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-08 19:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2018-07-08 21:00 ` Otared Kavian
2018-07-08 21:11 ` Alan Braslau
2018-07-09 9:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2018-07-09 13:05 ` Hans Hagen
2018-07-09 12:51 ` Hans Åberg
2018-07-09 15:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2018-07-09 19:27 ` Hans Åberg [this message]
2018-07-10 15:53 ` Hans Åberg
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