On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 05:47:57AM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Montag, dem 27.10.2025 um 23:49 +0100 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > Why are these called special characters instead of special strings? > > e.g., I view "LyX" as a string more than a character. > > Tradition, I think. Special strings would also not work for everything, > think of ligature break.
Makes sense! Is your recent work at all related to text macros? ;)
What I usually do is I create a math macro, like $\text{some word}$ and
use that, but it does not feel very clean.
Scott
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