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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> is there a way to stop texmacs  to treat multi-letter strings in math
> mode as operators?
>
> I'm writing a geometry book
> Consider this situation
>
> "Let $ABC$  a triangle, and suppose $A$ is right..."
>
> (of course I'm using $ $ to represent in ascii the mathbox
> Now, texmacs makes ABC to be upright whereas A shows up slanted. So I
> get ahge problem of consistency, since everytime I refer to points or
> single-letter geometric objects, I get slanted, and when representing
> segments or polygons I get upright, and this is becoming a problem
>
> When I started I  tried not to pay much attention to it, but now it
> just looks unprofessional and unconsistent, sicne everywhere I get a
> mix of slanted and upright representing the same objects.
>
> So, is there a way to make texmacs NOT to change math strings into
> upright (other than known  math functions)?
>
As far as I know, this feature is to be found
deep in the C++ code of TeXmacs :-(... (but I
am not 100% sure about that).


Anyway, for solving problems with things like 'A', 'ABC',
etc., perhaps could you simply use a macro that forces
the use of the appropriate font, like i.e. :
[[
<assign|var|
  <macro|x|<with|mode|math|math-font-family|it|<arg|x>>>>
]]

, and then you type :
[[
  "Let $<var|ABC>$ a triangle, and
   suppose $<var|A>$ is right...".
]]


And if in fact you only use the '$' for names
like 'A', 'ABC', etc., you could even completely
omit math mode, and directly write :
[[
  "Let <var|ABC> a ..."
]]


Best, Henri