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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Proposal for math mappings
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:15:00 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1012130908300.7533@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vnlzdrj60g5ws1@localhost>

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Procházka Lukáš wrote:

> Hello, thanks for the deeper explanation -
>
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:28:55 +0100, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> I agree that digits, upper and lower case latin and greek does not capture
>> all mathematic characters for which such mappings are needed. Similar
>> mappings might also be needed for some symbols like nabla (are there other
>> such symbols?). These can also be added as a key like
>>
>>     nabla={normal,italic}
>> 
>> or
>>
>>     nabla={bold,normal}
>
> I came to work with some similar operators in differential geometry, so as I 
> remember or I can find:
>
> grad (also horizontally flipped greek Delta)
> div (looking like normal greek Delta)
> curl, rot - the same as div (but in R3 space, whilst div is for R1)
> Laplace operator

Unlike Nabla, these characters do not have any bold or sans-serif 
variants, so it does not make sense to define math-mappings for them.

The only other character that I could find with multiple alternatives is 
the partial symbol. So, I suggest the following macro:

\definemathmappings % and \setupmathmappings
      [....]
      [digits=...,
       uclatin=....,
       lclatin=....,
       ucgreek=...,
       lcgreek=...,
       nabla=...,
       partial=...]

Other symbols (blackboard sum, differential operator, etc) are better 
handled by a dedicated macro rather than input mappings.

If there are no other concerns, Hans, Mojca, and I can take this offline.

Aditya

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-13 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10  4:49 Aditya Mahajan
2010-12-10 12:41 ` Vladimir Lomov
2010-12-10 15:29   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-12-11 15:24     ` Otared Kavian
2010-12-10 13:49 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2010-12-10 15:22   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-12-11 16:28 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-12-12 16:15   ` Procházka Lukáš
2010-12-13 14:15     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]

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