From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/83573 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Questions about mathfence Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:55:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <51F6371D.6010104@wxs.nl> <507525E5-A7E1-40DC-9981-06B2C087A768@umich.edu> <51F7C73D.8030808@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375196175 25568 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 14:56:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:56:15 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 30 16:56:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BLV-00062F-IP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:56:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BE3101EA; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:48 +0200 (CEST) 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 9ZLSgNBeL8Tt; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88F7101E5; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F67A101E5 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:44 +0200 (CEST) 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 kn5FF115T0sy for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4123101E4 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r6UEtvxf012657 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:55:58 +0200 Original-Received: FROM adi-netbook ((null) [135.0.233.198]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 51F7D3FB.6FFDE.14744 ; Authuser adityam; 30 Jul 2013 10:55:55 EDT In-Reply-To: <51F7C73D.8030808@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.03 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0QK6CTVv4 - cc64144d65c7 - 20130730 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:83573 Archived-At: 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. 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