On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:48:54PM +1030, Owen Lucas wrote:
> Math macros? Ive heard of them but have not worked out what they are and
> how to use them yet. what I wish to do is replace something like "(1,0)"
> with the longer notation which in tex is $A^{2}\Sigma -X^{2}\Pi
> \left(1-0\right)$.
>
> Its one of those things that for day to day you can just say (1,0) and
> you make perfect sense but put it in writing and you look like a fool
> (and the above notation in tex is just the short version of the full
> thing). As such it would be nice to type (1,0) and have it turn into the
> above when the dvi is exported.
We had a code for math shortcuts: typing <= would create \leq etc.
However, this code was not applied (why?), so this feature wouldn't appear
before version 1.4.0.
