From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Questions about mathfence
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:55:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1307301048040.7780@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F7C73D.8030808@wxs.nl>
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 7/30/2013 3:28 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> I it really necessary to use Unicode characters to specify left, right,
>> etc? I ink that most math users will be more comfortable using literal
>> symbols, {,[,(,|, etc or tex names \Vert, \vert, etc.
>
> currently yes ... i hate to introduce all kind of extra tests for what value
> is given and by permitting \commands we also become less robust
In the mathsets module, I assumed that a valid math delimiter is used as
the value for left, right, and middle keys. In that case, no extra test it
needed.
> keep in mind that one can clone
>
> \definemathfence [fancybracket] [bracket] [command=yes,color=red]
>
> so if there is a properly named base set (i tend to clean expressive verbose
> names, at least as base commands instead of all the weird ones that showed up
> over time (along with entities with slightly different names) ... clean math
> as start and we can always add dirty math as instances
Agreed. Unmatched brackets are not so common, so this the default set is a
reasonable starting point.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-29 1:24 Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-29 9:34 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-30 13:28 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-30 14:01 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-30 14:55 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
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