Re: [NTG-context] Math literal colon

24 Jul 2015


      On 7/20/2015 6:09 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:
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On 20 Jul 2015, at 17:50, Manuel Blanco  wrote:
A little bit more of intelligence can be given with
\begingroup\lccode`\~=`\:\lowercase{\endgroup
      \unexpanded\def~}{\futurelet\tmptoken\docolon}
    \unexpanded\def\docolon{\ifx=\tmptoken\mathrel{\mathop{\mathchar`\:}}\else\colon\fi}
    \mathcode`\:="8000 %
That lets you do $f: A \to B$ and $f(x) := x^2$
For the second, one can use ≔ COLON EQUALS U+2254. But it is a good point, though.
there is actually a more modern trick:

\starttext

\startluacode
characters.mathpairs[0x3A] = { [0x3D] = 0x2254 }
characters.mathpairs[0x3E] = { [0x3D] = 0x2265 }
characters.mathpairs[0x3C] = { [0x3D] = 0x2264 }
characters.mathpairs[0x3D] = { [0x3A] = 0x2255 }
\stopluacode

\startTEXpage
$a := b <= =< c =: d >= e$
\stopTEXpage

\stoptext

i uploaded a beta with these predefined (in char-def.lua) but we can add 
more (if someone provides me the list)

negations and a few more already were present

Hans


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