Hi, I do not know the history of \lparen and \lparent (not in the TeX Book nor in the LaTeX Companion), but I find these abbreviations to be unfortunate.
As Hans knows, we eliminated them from the bibliography subsystem, preferring "parenthesis" to "paren" or "parent". These cryptic (and confusing) abbreviations should be avoided when possible. But, of course, we should keep "sacred" abbreviations that are standard in TeX (but not necessarily all offshoots). Alan PS, how is this better than the TeX \left( ? (it shouldn't matter that it is one rather than two tokens.) On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:46:22 +0100 Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/4/2016 12:50 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > do we need both definitions in math-fen.mkiv? > > > > \installmathfencepair \lparen \Lparen \rparen \Rparen > > \installmathfencepair \lparent \Lparent \rparent \Rparent > > > > > > AFAIK \left\lparen should be the same as \left( but this doesn’t > > work because there is > > no defintion for \Lparen in math-fen.mkiv and char-def.lua contains > > only a entry for "lparent". > > so: > > \let\lparen\lparent > \let\rparen\rparent > > i think that they're there because some old time expectations but i > have no problem dropping them > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > dev-context mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context -- Alan Braslau CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC CNRS UMR 3680 Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex FRANCE tel: +33 1 69 08 73 15 fax: +33 1 69 08 87 86 mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
