- From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: Questions about formula editing (a few more)
- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 19:02:30 +0200
Hi Pierre-Henri,
On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 07:13:36AM +0200, Pierre-Henri Jondot wrote:
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Some very minor quibbles :
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The choices being made to "fuse together" formulas or not is sometimes a
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bit surprising to me. I am getting used to them, but that is not to say
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that I embrace them :
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Writing a lot of exercises and solutions at the moment, I am often in the
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process of adding to the left of some formula, some other things,
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definitions, other arguments... If the cursor is just to the left of a
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formula, then hitting $ does not begin a new formula, separate from the one
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to the immediate right, but instead the cursor goes inside the existing
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formula to the right. So in this case, $ is redondant with the right arrow
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key. Not a big problem obviously, as I just need to remember to place some
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separation, such as a space, before hitting $ (because after it is too
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late, the formula cannot be split into two separate formulas). Still I
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would prefer in this instance the $ key to begin a new formula, distinct
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from the one immediately to the right of the cursor.
Yes, I introduced the fusing behavior after noting that a lot of users
tended to create meaningless empty formulas before or after other formulas.
I agree that this is counterintuitive from a structural point of view,
but it avoids this very common type of error.
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At the opposite, I use a lot of copy-paste in formulas (this is really
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great), and if I want to extend a formula by pasting another formula, at
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the beginning or the end of one formula, I must be very careful that the
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cursor is inside the formula to be extended, else the two formulas will
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appear as two separate formulas (which structurally is not nice, and it
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prevents to select and copy the entire formula, as it is not one formula,
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but two of them)
Yes, one has to be careful about cursor positioning.
At least all cursor positions are available,
so I guess that this is just a matter of habit.
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Last thing : it looks more like a (tiny) bug than a design decision : when
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I want to enter this kind of integral :
Note that the integral does not show up in all email clients.
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then the Ctrl-F shortcut for the upper bound will be ignored once, which is
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not the case for the lower bound. The same is true for the square root
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shortcut Ctrl-S and the same behaviour applies to the discrete sum.
I don't understand. If I do "S-F5 ^ C-f" (assuming the MacOS look and feel),
then I indeed start a fraction in the superscript. Same if I do "\ i n t
return ^ C-f".
Best wishes, --Joris
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