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Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:32:56 -0700
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Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines
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Donald Arseneau <[log in to unmask]>
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Torsten Bronger <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> > And isn't it quite sensible to distinguish between text and maths?
>
> XML doesn't do it and I find this very convenient.  In (La)TeX, for
> many characters you need different commands for text and math mode.
> I'd love to have a typesetting system to which I could pass a say
> 'small Greek letter alpha', and it would just work in every context.

Oh, so you *do* want TeX to distinguish text from math mode, just
as it currently does -- you are happy to type "a" in either mode,
and have it printed according to contexyt, right?  You just don't
like some deliberate decisions made by the LaTeX people when they
went from version 2.09 to 2e.

Donald Arseneau                          [log in to unmask]

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