On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:57:43AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:45:35AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > André, this may well be a dumn question, but WHY do we "swallow" the "\" when
> > displaying math commands, eg \Diamond. Would it not make your life easier as
> > well if the "\" was displayed also.
>
> They names are stored internally without the backslash (since that is what
> TeX seems to do).
>
> But it is easy to add the backlash for display reasons. Should I?
FWIW, I second this suggestion.
Actually, you could do what DEK does in the TeXbook, which is draw a
small rectangle around control sequences (which is what these beasts
are called). But just displaying the backslash seems reasonable
enough (and probably more aesthetic, to be honest).
Jules
