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Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b


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  • From: Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] ab=a times b
  • Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:11:45 +0000

I have mapped space to * and shift-space to do what space does.

I find this much more efficient.

-á.



On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:01, Lukasz Stafiniak <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, El.Douwen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> hi
>> i had asked for the writing of AB and Marc suggested to write A[space]B so
>> that the italic of A be the same than i the other parts of the document.
>> for the little letters i have always written a*b and the * is invisible.
>> Typing a space b gives the same result but is quite shorter and easier to
>> do
>> is there a typographic reason to prefer the use of * than the use of space
>> or is it ok ?
>> Sacha
>
> I observed that in recent TeXmacs, [space] is translated as "apply" in
> the status bar, rather than "multiply" (and it just is a space in the
> source). I like this suggestion (I actually use "apply", like in
> ML/Haskell languages), although I'm not sure if typographically
> "apply" should be shorter.



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