On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:29:52AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Anyway, I thought about a different thing this morning (for later :).
> In mathed you have some macros which only have a scope of one
> character (like font changes), while most of them create a box, from
> which you have to exit later. The (La)TeX behaviour is different: by
> default, arguments are only one token, unless you add explicit braces
> (add a box, in mathed terms). Why couldn't mathed have the same
> behaviour? This makes simple formulas much easier to enter (a_i+b_i
> vs. a_i<space>+b_i<space>) and would probably be intuitive to use. If
> you want to have a longer subscript you can add a box, for example
> with a lfun bound to (surprise!) the key {.
>
> Does it make sense?
I like the sound of that.
Jules
