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Re: Stretchy Operators
Patrick D. F. Ion wrote:
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> There are expressions in high-energy physics that I don't think
> used to have matching vast parens before algorithmic typsetting
> took over from visually oriented.
Yes, the graphical MINSE renderer currently does grow its grouping
structures. It's the simplest way to facilitate visual matching.
> For instance, in the case ||x-a| sin(b)| the important thing is
> probably that the outer vert pair be associated together and not
> be confused with the inner.
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> Personally I don't think the outer modulus here needs
> to be displayed larger at all.
In this case, i think i would prefer if they were. But that's
a matter of taste. This should be configurable by setting style
parameters, something which is easy to do with the extensibility
that MINSE already has. (Download a style file that redefines one
function -- the one for grouping -- and you're done.)
> In addition there are constructions like the semi-open
> interval notation [a,b) which might have to have explicit pairings added.
You wouldn't have to worry about this if you treated semi-open
intervals as a compound on their own.
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