Hi Joris, Hi all,
wrt. to the reply below: is not known to TeXmacs whether we are in LaTeX math
mode or not? We should be able to precompute this and avoid \ensuremath all the
way (apart from macro definitions). Or there are some issues there?
Best
Max
ps: I've moved the discussion to texmacs-dev.
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: TeXmacs <texm...@lix.polytechnique.fr>
> Subject: Re: TeXmacs: why is \ensuremath needed for conversion to LaTeX
> Date: 7. May 2021 at 17:46:26 CEST
> To: texmacs-us...@texmacs.org
> Reply-To: TeXmacs <texm...@lix.polytechnique.fr>
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> For a systematic export tool, it is better to be redundant than
> as tight as possible, but occasionally buggy.
>
> The LaTeX export should be robust with respect to user errors,
> such as using a mathematical primitive in text mode.
> In my test files, such errors are rare, but they occur,
> and we don't want them to break the conversion.
>
> Best wishes, --Joris
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 05:30:27PM +0200, Frank wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I spotted that the tex file converted from TeXmacs is filled with
>> \ensuremath{\operatorname{...}}. I wonder why the \ensuremath is needed.
>> This seems redundant in my document.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Frank
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