On 7/24/2015 2:32 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:
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On 24 Jul 2015, at 10:30, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:

On 7/20/2015 6:06 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:

On 20 Jul 2015, at 16:40, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Hans Aberg wrote:

The LaTeX package unicode-math has an option colon=literal, which makes it 
behave as in math functions (as in example below). Has ConTeXt a similar option?

No. You have to use \colon.

It would be nice with such an option, as it helps the readability of the input 
files.

already for some years i'm thinking of something similar to openmath 
dictionaries i.e. in many cases when one writes math it is in some field that 
is consistent within a document, say logic or engineering

it is rather trivial to support something

\setupmathematics[domain=logic]

or so, where we automatically relate the math class with the symbols used, 
something that becomes more important once we start coding in unicode instead 
of using names

but ... in order to provide this, i need information about useful categories

Unicode provides one such category. The reason is all math characters are added 
and in that process analyzed. I worked with Taco on that in the late 1990s.

So one main option, which might be the simplest, to assume that the input is 
UTF-8. Oen can the added ASCII command names, based on the Unicode names. In 
addition some options for special needs and legacy.

i don't understand what you mean as the issue is not unicode or ascii but categorizing symbols in classes

when we have a symbol in the input (can be a : but also something else) in some cases it is a binary but in other cases a relation or whatever

this influences the spacing and the 'domain' (or dictionaries) group symbols so that we can assign the right properties

entering a utf sequence representing 0x2236 still doesn't always prescribe what mathclass it is, 0x22A5 0x22C5 0x25B3 are examples of such dual face characters

(this is actually more important in for instance xml input)

Hans

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