Re: [NTG-context] Proposal for math mappings

13 Dec 2010

      On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Procházka Lukáš wrote:
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Hello, thanks for the deeper explanation -
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:28:55 +0100, Aditya Mahajan  wrote:
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I agree that digits, upper and lower case latin and greek does not capture
all mathematic characters for which such mappings are needed. Similar
mappings might also be needed for some symbols like nabla (are there other
such symbols?). These can also be added as a key like
nabla={normal,italic}
or
nabla={bold,normal}
I came to work with some similar operators in differential geometry, so as I 
remember or I can find:
grad (also horizontally flipped greek Delta)
div (looking like normal greek Delta)
curl, rot - the same as div (but in R3 space, whilst div is for R1)
Laplace operator
Unlike Nabla, these characters do not have any bold or sans-serif 
variants, so it does not make sense to define math-mappings for them.

The only other character that I could find with multiple alternatives is 
the partial symbol. So, I suggest the following macro:

\definemathmappings % and \setupmathmappings
      [....]
      [digits=...,
       uclatin=....,
       lclatin=....,
       ucgreek=...,
       lcgreek=...,
       nabla=...,
       partial=...]

Other symbols (blackboard sum, differential operator, etc) are better 
handled by a dedicated macro rather than input mappings.

If there are no other concerns, Hans, Mojca, and I can take this offline.

Aditya