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> Other thing
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> Have you ever thought about making "Spacebar" bound to
> product, instead of *?. This would need a change in the
> other math bindings, but has two arguments in its favor:
>
> -- We keep typing all the day products, spacebar is bigger
> and better placed.

Yes, but it has another semantics than *.

> -- WYSIWYG: after all, if you make a product you get an
> small space; the current binding is __anti__ WYSIWYG,
> because you type space and you get nothing.

That depends; if you type "s i n space x",
then you do get a space. But you might be right that
a space should always be visible (I was thinking about that).

> -- more similar to what people already know.
>
> My point is that typing products is so common that should
> be thought as the default between monocharacter symbols.

Wrong.

-Joris-

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• \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Daniel Duparc, 03/01/2002
  • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Jay Belanger, 03/01/2002
    • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/01/2002
      • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, David Allouche, 03/01/2002
        • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/01/2002
          • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Andrey G. Grozin, 03/02/2002
            • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/02/2002
              • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Andrey G. Grozin, 03/02/2002
              • Convention for products and operators--, Álvaro Tejero Cantero, 03/02/2002
              • Re: Convention for products and operators--, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/02/2002
              • Wiki, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/02/2002
      • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Michael John Downes, 03/04/2002
        • Re: \int_a^b f(x) dx : dx is in rm, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/04/2002

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