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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:34:24AM +0100, Armin Straub wrote:
> the help for <rsup|script> states the following:
>   "When a right script is attached to an operator (or symbol) which accepts
>    limits, then it is rendered below or above instead of beside the 
> operator"
> 
> Unfortunately, I was unable to find out how to define such an operator that 
> accepts limits.

At the moment, the "with-limits" primitive (which was designed
originally for this purpose) does not work as it should.
As a temporary non-macro solution, you can use script above/below.

Best wishes, Joris

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> To be specific, I want to write a macro for entering weak limits, i.e. 
> something that behaves like "lim" but is rendered differently e.g. "wlim".
> 
> I have attached a small file to illustrate this. I'm using TeXmacs version 
> 1.0.5.
> 
> Any help would be very appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Armin Straub

> <TeXmacs|1.0.5>
> 
> <style|generic>
> 
> <\body>
>   This is how normal lim looks like:
> 
>   <\equation*>
>     lim<rsub|n>x
>   </equation*>
> 
>   But just prepending a single char turns it into:
> 
>   <\equation*>
>     wlim<rsub|n>x
>   </equation*>
> 
>   I now want to write a macro wlim that can be used just as if I had entered
>   lim, i.e.
> 
>   <\itemize>
>     <item>the limit may be entered with _ and appears depending on
>     math-display below or after wlim. (I know that I can force it to appear
>     below using A-b (script below))
> 
>     <item>I don't have to manually add additional whitespace after wlim.
>   </itemize>
> 
>   In short, entering ``\\wlim _n x'' should do the trick.
> 
>   Any ideas? Thanks for your time!
> </body>
> 
> <\initial>
>   <\collection>
>     <associate|language|american>
>   </collection>
> </initial>