On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 10-3-2010 21:43, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Dnia Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:56:32PM +0100, Hans Hagen napisał(a):
(there will and can be more such math goodies so don't hesitate to collect them)
Hans
I wrote about it some time ago, but I have deleted that email, so here is the thing again.
In the Polish typesetting package for LaTeX, there are defined a few commands like \tg and \ctg, since in Poland we write "tg" and not "tan", and "ctg" and not "cot". (There are also a few more commands, like \arcssin generating arc\,sin etc. according to Polish customs.) I know that this is controversial, but it would be nice to have a switch so that \tan also produces "tg" etc. The reason behind it is that if we treat TeX as a markup language and not a typesetting one (as is often the case with mathematical formulae), we want to be able to adapt to local typesetting traditions without changing the code. Also, cutting and pasting formulae between Polish and English texts (and I need it from time to time, for example) would be easier that way. I agree that this need not be the default, but having it as an option would be handy (although not really indispensable). Would such a switch be possible (without too much work, of course)?
some things are easy (and can be written in parallel to watching a movie) ... in the beta ...
\starttext
$\tan{x} + \cos{x}$
\mainlanguage[pl]
$\tan{x} + \cos{x}$
\mainlanguage[nl]
$\tan{x} + \cos{x}$
\stoptext
currently no special switch for math so it goes with mainlanguage (but one can overload \mathlabellanguage)
Is there some sort of a standard for the abbreviations of such functions? Does the standard just depend on your main language, or does it also depend on a particular field? Depending on that, we should either switch the labels based on the main language, or using a \setupmathematics switch. Aditya