On 11-2-2010 12:12, Philipp A. wrote:
i’m quite excited to find out that most of what i want is already in mkiv! regarding the problems you mentioned:
1. the super/subscripts could be interpreted like x²³₄₅ → x^{23}_{45} or couldn’t they? if you want to do more complex stuff (more than one level of super/subscripting), the super/subscripts are only for the last level: x^{2³}_{4₅} → x^{2^3}_{4_5}
i can look into it ... but it's up to you to provide some test files first so that we can determine to what extend we go
2. maybe the use of unicode fractions and sfrac as a fallback would be nice for inline math: 4 ⁄ 5 → ⅘, 8 ⁄ 9 → \sfrac89. for display it would be {4 \over 5} and {8 \over 9} (maybe i don’t get your point: isn’t \over context’s way of doing fractions?)
well, we could also support display but we might pose some restrictions 2a / b vs 2 a/b
3. you mean “\√” yields “√”? of course! it’s like a “&” or a “\”, then.
indeed, but introducing more commands like \√ might not be the way to go as we try to get rid of & etc being special (i've even be thinking os some special unicode char, maybe a private pair, for $ $ replacement
4. you mean thishttp://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf. nice thing, worth more than one look! maybe really the direction of the future?
indeed and as with cambria it's microsoft currently leading the way .. in my opinion the tex math community lost the lead long ago so we have to follow now (stix is a good example ... we could probably easily test those fonts in mkiv but no one cares) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------