Hi,
I do not know the history of \lparen and \lparent
(not in the TeX Book nor in the LaTeX Companion),
but I find these abbreviations to be unfortunate.
As Hans knows, we eliminated them from the bibliography subsystem,
preferring "parenthesis" to "paren" or "parent".
These cryptic (and confusing) abbreviations should be avoided when
possible. But, of course, we should keep "sacred" abbreviations that are
standard in TeX (but not necessarily all offshoots).
Alan
PS, how is this better than the TeX \left( ?
(it shouldn't matter that it is one rather than two tokens.)
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:46:22 +0100
Hans Hagen
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
Hans
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