On Wed, 07 May 2008 at 11:12AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John H Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (For what it's worth, I've seen LaTeX gurus complain that one should > > not use $$ $$ for displaying math; \[ \] is better. Should the > > default value of 'sep' be changed?) > > Why? I think \[ and \] are ugly and hard to type compared to $$'s. > What makes them so much better?
This is a minor point, and not directly related to LaTeX or Sage, but recently I was trying to parse LaTeX documents, and using distinct delimters for the beginning and end of special chunks of text makes parsing easier. Certainly you can parse $$...$$, but I like \[...\]. As for being hard to type, I use vim-latexsuite, which automatically inserts a displaymath environment when I type 'EDM'. I'm sure emacs could be convinced to do something similar. :) Dan -- --- Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://math.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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