On 11-2-2010 12:12, Philipp A. wrote:
i’m quite excited to find out that most of what i want is already in mkiv!
regarding the problems you mentioned:
1. the super/subscripts could be interpreted like x²³₄₅ → x^{23}_{45} or
couldn’t they? if you want to do more complex stuff (more than one level of
super/subscripting), the super/subscripts are only for the last level:
x^{2³}_{4₅} → x^{2^3}_{4_5}
i can look into it ... but it's up to you to provide some test files
first so that we can determine to what extend we go
2. maybe the use of unicode fractions and sfrac as a fallback would be
nice for inline math: 4 ⁄ 5 → ⅘, 8 ⁄ 9 → \sfrac89. for display it would
be {4 \over 5} and {8 \over 9} (maybe i don’t get your point: isn’t \over
context’s way of doing fractions?)
well, we could also support display but we might pose some restrictions
2a / b
vs
2 a/b
3. you mean “\√” yields “√”? of course! it’s like a “&” or a “\”, then.
indeed, but introducing more commands like \√ might not be the way to go
as we try to get rid of & etc being special (i've even be thinking os
some special unicode char, maybe a private pair, for $ $ replacement
4. you mean
this<http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf>.
nice thing, worth more than one look! maybe really the direction of the
future?
indeed and as with cambria it's microsoft currently leading the way ..
in my opinion the tex math community lost the lead long ago so we have
to follow now (stix is a good example ... we could probably easily test
those fonts in mkiv but no one cares)
Hans
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