Re: real subscripts and superscripts?

2014-12-01 Thread Per Bothner
On 12/01/2014 04:31 PM, Karl Berry wrote: The remaining question would be about @sup/@sub outside of math -- go into math by default, or stay in text? I would be inclined toward the latter (which is also what texi2any does now). I think the latter makes most sense: it seems more useful and con

Re: real subscripts and superscripts?

2014-12-01 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Pat, I add that I'd rather that we use specialized TeX renderers rather than handle it ourselves. I agree. A couple days ago, I took a few minutes to try to see if there were any decent TeX math parsers in Perl that we could reuse. Unfortunately, it did not seem so. Everything I coul

Re: real subscripts and superscripts?

2014-12-01 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:01:09PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > > Is your proposal really just working around makeinfo not recognizing ^ > and _ in math in the first place? It seems to me that might be > implementable without too much trouble -- the parsing could maybe be > treated like the accent