In many "less-rigorous" uses of equations, there is an abundant need to include words (text) in mathematics, and using \mathtext{} or \mbox{} or whatever is unwieldy.
Readable subscripts, self-explanatory variable names, etc. might be text and not symbols. These situations can be very common. This is why I asked (1) what is the right method, and (2) what do others think about the shorthand \t{}, similar to the shorthand \m{}? Alan On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:00:00 +0200 Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alan, Wolfgang and Hans Åberg, > > As far as I am concerned, when I have to add a text to a math formula > I use \mbox, as in the example > > \startformula > A := \left\{f : {\Bbb R}^2 \longrightarrow {\Bbb R} \; ; \; f > \mbox{ is measurable and } \int_{{\Bbb R}^2}|f(x)|dx < \infty > \right\}. \stopformula > > The advantage being that if the above formula appears in an > environment such as a Theorem (where the text is typeset in italic, > or slanted) the text in the above \mbox will be also in italic or > slanted. > > I don't think it would be a good idea to add new commands to treat > text in a math formula: the existing possiblities are more than > satisfactory, and moreover situations where one has to add text to a > formula are not that common. So using a command like \mbox, or \text, > or \mathtext, or whatever, is not that time consuming. > > Best regards: OK > > > > On 8 Jul 2018, at 21:21, Wolfgang Schuster > > <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Alan, > > > > 1. The correct way to use \mathrm is {\mathrm ...} because it is a > > switch like \rm for text mode. > > > > 2. \mathrm is the wrong method to write text in formulas because > > the command changes only the math alphabet. This means no > > ligatures, kerning or other characters like umlauts. > > > > 3. The correct way to write text in math mode is \mathtext (which > > has the synonym \text) or \mathword. To change the style of the > > text you can use \mathtext{\it …} or \mathtextit{…}. > > > > Wolfgang > >> Alan Braslau <mailto:braslau.l...@comcast.net> 7. Juli 2018 um > >> 16:04 Hello ConTeXt users, > >> > >> Does it drive you crazy to see TeX users write $t = time$? > >> (I see this all of the time by LaTeX users in Beamer > >> presentations.) > >> > >> One can do better writing $t = {\rm time}$ (maybe) > >> or in ConTeXt $t = \mathrm{time}$. > >> Sometimes, too, I might write $t = \text{time}$. > >> > >> We also have the commands \mathematics{} that can be used in place > >> of the TeX shorthand $...$, and this also has the shortcut \m{...}. > >> > >> I thought that it might be useful to have an equivalent escape, to > >> be used as $t = \t{time}$. What do other users think? > >> > >> OK, \m{t = \t{time}} might be a bit funky... > >> > >> > >> Alan > >> > >> > >> P.S. I proposed doing this via > >> \let\t\mathrm > >> but Hans tells me that this is not good, as \mathrm{} does not give > >> proper font processing, so implementation of \t{} would be > >> something different... > >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > >> entry to the Wiki! > >> > >> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> / > >> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >> <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context> webpage : > >> http://www.pragma-ade.nl <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/> / > >> http://context.aanhet.net <http://context.aanhet.net/> archive : > >> https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > >> <https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/> wiki : > >> http://contextgarden.net <http://contextgarden.net/> > >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > >> > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > > entry to the Wiki! > > > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : > > http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : > > https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : > > http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________