Re: [NTG-context] Math bug (maybe) - prime

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 5:58 AM Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote:

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:27:39 +0100 Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:

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What you can do is:

$\primed{a}^2$

which basically makes the prime an operation .. a small price to pay for more robust handling of primes (also across fonts)

I anticipated that (unicode) prime is a pain to handle, given that different fonts present it differently.

$\primed{a}...$ is a very readable and reasonable solution (unlike \mathord{}, which seems to be a messy fix). I will learn and use that.

Thank you!

Alan

P.S. inverting the order of the "exponents", if prime is some sort of exponent, was a surprising result.

Alan, Note that the 2 sits higher in \primed{a}^2 than it does in (a')^2. For readability, I really prefer the version with parentheses. /Mikael