From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Deprecated $…$ for inline math?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:24:53 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1602171322050.16336@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160217093248.03ceca3e@cea.fr>
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> However, I can see situations where one might want to tighten spacing
> in order to fit a particular expression within a line or in a table,
> for example. Here, \math[options]{expression} is a reasonable syntax,
> yet I cannot foresee ever using the very cryptic \m{} for any reason:
> it is just plain ugly! (No TeXie would ever find $<expression>$ as
> ugly...)
I am curious to know if there is ANYONE who types in a lot of math and
regularly uses \m{...} or \math{...}. I still use $....$ and use \math{..}
or \mathematics{...} only when generating output from lua code:
context.math("....") etc. is cleaner than context("$%s$", ...)
Aditya
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 8:22 Nicola
2016-02-16 8:54 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 15:21 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 15:59 ` Marco Patzer
2016-02-16 16:20 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 19:12 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 18:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-16 19:18 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 7:31 ` Otared Kavian
2016-02-17 9:44 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-17 16:32 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 18:24 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2016-02-17 20:45 ` Rogers, Michael K
2016-02-17 22:18 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 23:40 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-02-18 0:38 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-18 9:22 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18 9:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 20:37 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-02-18 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18 9:16 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18 9:25 ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-02-16 16:16 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 8:56 ` Marco Patzer
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