- From: Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Comma issue
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:42:00 +0100
I personally like that TeXmacs automatically takes care of the spacing.
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 06:36, Joris van der Hoeven
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 04:44:44PM +0200, Jan Lellmann wrote:
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> I noticed that recent versions of Texmacs exhibit a strange
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> behavior: When I type a comma "," in an equation followed by space,
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> the comma disappears. This is quite annoying. Is it intended
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> behavior, and if yes, why?
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Yes, this is the intended behaviour.
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The shortcut ", " stands for an invisible comma.
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For instance, "a_i, j" allows you to type the matrix entry $a_{ij}$.
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In math mode, users are not intended to manually enter spaces
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around commas or other operators, except if you want to explicitly
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apply a function. The typesetter knows about the amount of whitespace
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to put around commas and operators. In other words, type "f(x,y)"
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and not "f(x, y)"; also type "x+y", not "x + y".
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I agree though that the behaviour may seem unnatural;
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maybe I should only activate it in semantic editing mode.
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On the other hand, it is true that spurious commas are
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*THE* major nuisance to parsing math formulas.
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It is really a nasty habit. An alternative would be
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to simply ignore such spaces.
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On this occasion, I would re-ask users to try the semantic
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mathematical editing mode (see explantions in the documentation
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on typing mathematical formulas); it remains useful to have
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more feedback on this issue.
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Best, --Joris
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