From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Placing number in \sqrt
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 04:42:04 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2005040439410.2120@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <984c2292-0e96-d49d-858b-d9d0d1e4df78@xs4all.nl>
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On Mon, 4 May 2020, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/4/2020 8:47 AM, context@vivaldi.net wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> compare placing "3" in the following examples:
>>
>> ----
>> \starttext
>> $\sqrt[3]{5}$ % (1)
>> \par
>> $\sqrt[3~]{5}$ % (2)
>> \stoptext
>> ----
>>
>> In the first case, the "3" is placed naturally by ConTeXt and placed
>> more in the centre of "V" part of the square sign.
>>
>> In the second example, the "3" is shifted manually by adding "~" and the
>> final placement seems to me a bit better.
>>
>> What is your opinion - is the case (1) OK/intended and user should avoid
>> any manual shifting?
>>
>> Or manual shifting is OK? Or is there a way to affect this placement
>> globally in ConTeXt, e.g. setting an internal variable?
>
> If we can come up with a proper name for a parameter we can make it a
> setting. One of these things that Aditya and I will to discuss when we
> have time and are in math mood. (There is much more in math we could
> control if needed, but often in the end that control is not that much
> needed at all.)
As an example, see this question about customized square root signed which was asked on TeX.SE a few years ago:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/406680/323
Aditya
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2020-05-04 6:47 context
2020-05-04 7:31 ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-04 8:42 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2020-05-04 11:12 ` context
2020-05-04 17:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
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