From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/56955 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Dezimalkomma Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <4B96CCA2.3596.3107BE1@wwl.musensturm.de> <4B972E14.90607@googlemail.com> <201003100928.53652.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <4B97DD50.8050107@wxs.nl> <20100310204312.GB25533@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <4B982439.1080601@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268267023 24853 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2010 00:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:23:43 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 11 01:23:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpWBY-00077e-1L for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC93C9D07; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:31 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8AfcT0e2fgDU; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B01C9CFE; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4985EC9CEF for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:26 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id BRmmnF9EbAYn for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEFCC9CED for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-76-28-91-31.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [76.28.91.31]) By skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4B9837F9.1DFBA.16435 ; Authuser adityam; 10 Mar 2010 19:23:21 EST In-Reply-To: <4B982439.1080601@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:56955 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 10-3-2010 21:43, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> Dnia Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:56:32PM +0100, Hans Hagen napisał(a): >>> (there will and can be more such math goodies so don't hesitate to >>> collect them) >>> >>> Hans >> >> I wrote about it some time ago, but I have deleted that email, so here >> is the thing again. >> >> In the Polish typesetting package for LaTeX, there are defined a few >> commands like \tg and \ctg, since in Poland we write "tg" and not "tan", >> and "ctg" and not "cot". (There are also a few more commands, like >> \arcssin generating arc\,sin etc. according to Polish customs.) I know >> that this is controversial, but it would be nice to have a switch so >> that \tan also produces "tg" etc. The reason behind it is that if we >> treat TeX as a markup language and not a typesetting one (as is often >> the case with mathematical formulae), we want to be able to adapt to >> local typesetting traditions without changing the code. Also, cutting >> and pasting formulae between Polish and English texts (and I need it >> from time to time, for example) would be easier that way. I agree that >> this need not be the default, but having it as an option would be handy >> (although not really indispensable). Would such a switch be possible >> (without too much work, of course)? > > some things are easy (and can be written in parallel to watching a movie) ... > in the beta ... > > \starttext > > $\tan{x} + \cos{x}$ > > \mainlanguage[pl] > > $\tan{x} + \cos{x}$ > > \mainlanguage[nl] > > $\tan{x} + \cos{x}$ > > \stoptext > > currently no special switch for math so it goes with mainlanguage (but one > can overload \mathlabellanguage) Is there some sort of a standard for the abbreviations of such functions? Does the standard just depend on your main language, or does it also depend on a particular field? Depending on that, we should either switch the labels based on the main language, or using a \setupmathematics switch. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________