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Frank Mittelbach <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:35:31 +0100
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I wrote:

 > do you mind outlining the solution in a few sentences? how do you want
 > to be able to find out that you are not in math but will be once
 > something (eg tha actual letter) triggered the \halign u part without
 > actually triggering it (with something like \relax which kills
 > ligaturing)?

but by now i got a chance to looked at it. quite a nice idea but i don't think
it is fully correct yet. you change \if@mmode at each \halign thus an \halign
that doesn't generate math mode cells will have this setting throughout, eg
something like

\begin{tabular}[t]{..}

will have broken text inside, wouldn't it? or do i overlook something?

assuming that the analysis is right, what follows is that instead of changing
\halign internally you would have to change those uses of \halign where it is
needed (only) and that cuts through all existing macros and isn't transparent
ie you can't simply get it done by a single package or inclusion of code in
the kernel you actually have to change every second use of \halign

 > the approach used in the mathtext package proved to be stable enough:
 > i know a lot of people do use it for `transparent' cyrillic letters in
 > math, and i did not hear about bug for a long time now. the mechanism

you don't see the problem unless you look closely at kerning and ligatures
(and you use fonts that have them) but it may be the case that this is
sufficiently rare with the type of characters it is used so far. with latin
fonts i guess this would become far more visible.

frank

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