From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Weber, Matthias" <matweber@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Second derivative ''
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:36:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2003051135060.669703@ervasbepr.pvz.zptvyy.pn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4db7aed-e5a2-e6fe-5113-c08eaaff9bfa@xs4all.nl>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/4/2020 11:44 PM, Weber, Matthias wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> \starttext
>> \startformula
>> \left(f\right)'' = f''
>> \stopformula
>> \stoptext
>>
>> has the second apostrophe set too low. This is in MKIV on ConTeXt live as
> well as in my slightly older version.
>> What is the “right” way to typeset a second derivative?
> you have to turn on
>
> \setupmathematics
> [collapsing=3]
>
> but it has the side effect of also collapsing more:
>
> $x'' >= 10$
>
> (which is why the mechanism is currently turned off by default)
>
> i'll think about an option that only does some specific ones only
>
> (btw, i love tex but these primes are a bit painful due to th eorriginal
> approach which has lead mixtures of (1) raised in the font and/or raised
> in the engine, (2) them being superscripts but not really, (3) fonts
> therefore doing it inconsistently, (4) some parsing related to multiple
> scripts, (5) double, tripple, etc primes being real unicode characters
> but spaced singles in traditional tex (which itself then introduces some
> size juggling) ... i could proabbly write a few pages about it)
So what's the best way to input them: using \prime, \prime\prime, etc.?
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-05 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 22:44 Weber, Matthias
2020-03-04 22:53 ` Henri Menke
2020-03-05 9:12 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-05 15:26 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-05 16:36 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2020-03-05 16:41 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2020-03-05 17:33 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-05 19:48 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2020-03-05 20:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-05 20:38 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2020-03-05 17:29 ` Hans Hagen
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