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2007 -------
pardon my ignorance, I see what you intend.
You're calling the letters l-i-m as limes, and referring to the from{} and
to{} parts as limits.
Perhaps its smart not to give tooltips in the symbol selection window.
Other software smartly avoid this problem, this way
I guess its ok to close the bug, once you educate the user as to why
you call it so, on the other hand perhaps this dialog panel itself
needs a closer look as to whether the words are really correct in
various languages, if you really want to give tooltips.
The problem, and source of confusion, is, in English no-one calls l-i-m limes.
and the from{} and to{} parts are called different things depending on the
function
In the case of integration they are called limits.
In the case of summation they are called indexes of summation
And in the case of the limit function, from {} just indicates to what various
variables tend to what by using an arrow arrow
In the case of unions "oper unicode-U from {a in A}" they refer to sets.
For haste and lack of a better reference I'll just pointing to wikipedia.
as I tried to look some things this up after reading your comments.
The original word is from the latin noun limes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes
In German, the spelling remains limes meaning frontiers ,
as in the case of the roman 'Limes Germanicus'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_Germanicus
Also in German, the mathematical terms uses limes as the spelling
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_%28Mathematik%29
In English however there has been some transformation
and the usage is limit, as in "speed limit" or "The sky is the limit"
and has various similar meanings to 'final' as given in the link
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=1&q=limit
Also in English, the mathematical terms use limit as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit
The keyword lim indicates the limit function and is read as limit of the
function f(x) as x tends to something
The three buttons on the right are probably better referred to as
summation with indexes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation)
text below modifier
text above modifier
Another reason why it looks funny is that lime(s) is a well known citric fruit.
and through-out schooling the l-i-m is always referred to as limit
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