On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Hans Hagen
On 2/19/2013 8:36 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi All,
In a way, it is correct that for compatibility reasons and and convert it is good to keep the old syntax.
Yet, ConTeXt is suppose to be more natural.
I consider the \{ \} \| etc to be escapes for tex characters. In fact, if one wants || in math then it's more natural to support || directly.
Personally, I find some of the names used in TeX and LaTeX often hard to find. Whenever, I needed a function or symbol I to often go look it up. I mean that \vert and \Vert are still cryptic. They can stand for abs, for all in, etc. ..
a next step (already partially done) is that we organize the names in dictionaries as in open math (a bit of work)
Me, I prefer names that reflect the their functions,
me too and i wonder if we should have proper names as well i.e. use verbose names as default (in char-def.lua) and define the short ones as synonyms (in a tex file)
Hans
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Fine. In principal I've nothing against typing || for double bars (even though people moving from TeX/LaTeX probably will be used to | for one bar and \| for two bars). Some questions: * Can one expect to get the right (that is the same as \Vert gives) spacing by typing || (two bars) in ConTeXt in the future? * Sometimes one would like to write absoulte value of z times absolute value of w, i.e. |z| times |w|. What if one writes |z||w|, will the double bar in the middle be equivalent to \Vert? (That is not wanted) * Will it be possible to write \Bigl|| and \Bigr|| to scale both bars to other sizes? * What if one would like to have three bars with the same spacing between the bars as in \Vert? /Mikael