On 2/19/2013 8:36 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi All,
In a way, it is correct that for compatibility reasons and and convert
it is good to keep the old syntax.
Yet, ConTeXt is suppose to be more natural.
I consider the \{ \} \| etc to be escapes for tex characters. In fact,
if one wants || in math then it's more natural to support || directly.
Personally, I find some of the names used in TeX and LaTeX often
hard to find. Whenever, I needed a function or symbol I to often
go look it up. I mean that \vert and \Vert are still cryptic. They can stand
for abs, for all in, etc. ..
a next step (already partially done) is that we organize the names in
dictionaries as in open math (a bit of work)
Me, I prefer names that reflect the their functions,
me too and i wonder if we should have proper names as well i.e. use
verbose names as default (in char-def.lua) and define the short ones as
synonyms (in a tex file)
Hans
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