> On 20 Jul 2015, at 18:37, Aditya Mahajan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Hans Aberg wrote:
>> It would be nice with such an option, as it helps the readability of the
>> input files.
>
> There are two uses of colon in math, as a relation (in sets \{ x : f(x) = 0
> \} and in ratios A:B, etc) and as a punctuation ($f \colon A -> B, etc.[1]).
> Only one of them can be mapped to the literal :, the other must use a macro
> name.
> It is easy to change the mapping, but if the mapping is reversed, is there is
> standard name for : as a relation?
It might be simplest to align towards Unicode and UTF-8, while retaining ASCII
commands, avoiding a plethora of options:
So one has the commands \colon for function “:" as is now, and the new \ratio
for operator “:".
Then Unicode ∶ RATIO U+2236 is mapped to the same as \ratio, which leaves :
COLON U+003A the only possibility to be the same as \colon.
Such an option might be called say colon=unicode, and be a part other similar
options.
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