Re: Upright math

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> The names \alpha \beta etc are currently hardcoded in char-def. The only 
>> way to change them is to move mathname="alpha" from 0x1D6FC to 0x03B1. Or 
>> use \greekalpha, \greekbeta etc (essentially taking the text glyphs).
>> 
>> Hans, we need to think of mechanism to switch between upright and italic 
>> greek letters for the macros.
>
>ok. actually, it's not that hard to do,


>  and i'd also provide an 0x1D6FC -> 0x03B1 and vise versa transformation 
> then (on unicode chars)

As long as there is  still some way of getting 0x1D6FC in the output.

>... so, you can 
> start thinking about proper names for the commands (\ugreek, \igreek or so);

I would prefer long names, say

\uprightalpha, \italicalpha, etc

or

\mathuprightalpha, \mathitalicalpha

Since, the user will usually just type \alpha, the long names should not 
be a problem.

> are there more such up/it things?

The differential operator has various conventions (upright, italic), but 
unicode only provides the double struck version (0x2145, and 0x2146)

Aditya
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