On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 1/4/2016 12:50 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi,
do we need both definitions in math-fen.mkiv?
\installmathfencepair \lparen \Lparen \rparen \Rparen \installmathfencepair \lparent \Lparent \rparent \Rparent
AFAIK \left\lparen should be the same as \left( but this doesn’t work because there is no defintion for \Lparen in math-fen.mkiv and char-def.lua contains only a entry for "lparent".
so:
\let\lparen\lparent \let\rparen\rparent
i think that they're there because some old time expectations but i have no problem dropping them
Probably because some users coming from latex expected them. The mathtools package defines \lparen and \rparen. Personally, I find "(l|r)parent" to be an awkward name for the macros because it is not clear what "parent" means. (l|r)parenthesis is a better choice or, if a short name is needed, then (l|r)paren (so that it is clear we are abbreviating the name). Aditya