From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
"Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior in math mode: < and minus sign give leftarrow
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:19:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.76.44.1904100818110.20792@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016e36eb-7930-2dc6-4236-2e83a6576142@xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/10/2019 9:40 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:21 AM Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> While testing old documents with lmtx, I noticed that with recent versions
>>> of mkiv, as well as LuaMetaTeX, there is a strange behavior in math mode:
>>> when the characters < and - follow each other one gets \leftarrow… This is
>>> embarrassing when one writes inequalities for negative numbers.
>>> So one has to separate them in order to obtain with curly braces. Can this
>>> be fixed or is it intended ?
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> $\alpha < -1$
>>>
>>> $\alpha \leftarrow 1$
>>>
>>> $\alpha < {-1}$
>>>
>>> $\alpha {<} - 1$
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> Best regards: OK
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I asked about this before, and it is a feature.
>>
>> It can be switched off with
>>
>> \setupmathematics[
>> collapsing=1,
>> ]
>>
>> Hope it helps!
> Indeed. Aditya is in charge of decisions about these defaults so if you want
> it differently you need to convince him. (I'm not sure how many users depend
> on it.)
We can turn it off by default. But it might be better to have a more
versbose interface:
\setupmathematics[collapsing=yes|no]
with the default value being collapsing=no.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-10 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 7:21 Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 7:40 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2019-04-10 7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 8:09 ` Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 14:41 ` Alan Braslau
2019-04-10 12:19 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2019-04-10 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 7:57 ` Otared Kavian
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