On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 12-5-2011 3:42, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >> On Thu, 12 May 2011, Martin Schröder wrote: >> >>> 2011/5/12 Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>: >>>> >>>> \starttext >>>> $e=mc^2$ >>> >>> Shouldn't that be something like e=mc²? >> >> No. IIRC, we had a discussion sometime ago whether we should treat ¹,², >> etc as >> valid superscripts in math mode, and decided against it. > > how about an article (for the maps/tugboat) about good math coding practices > in these unicode times
Or a new book: "Joy of ConTeXt" (for those who remember Spivak's "Joy of TeX"). Authors are going to provide tex sorce files that use e=mc² (and unless someone does SEO to ensure they find the afore mentioned article) will consider it a bug when it doesn't work. Other sources of confusion come when authors use a fixed font to edit and try to match glyphs (using Windows CharMap or BabelMap): you get 45˚N when it should be 45°N), or use auctex+preview in which $e=mc^2$ gives $e=mc^²$ in the emacs window. There is a need for a TeXCharTool that does BabelMap stuff but provides annotations describing appropriate TeX usages and can be searched using legacy TeX markup (e.g., to assist with converting old docs to unicode). -- George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
