Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!stucki From: stucki@math.fu-berlin.de (C. v. Stuckrad) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Gripe about _ and ^ Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 22:20:52 GMT References: <4377@undis.cs.chalmers.se> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 33 jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey) writes: > ... > a) either type _\foo or _{\foo} depending on what the definition of > \foo is, which rather spoils the point of logical markup, or > b) consistently type _{\foo}, which is a right pain, or The only Solution we found, was to configure the editors we use ( UNIX vi and MS/DOS Brief ) to generate the {} pairs after _{} and ^{} automagically and put the cursor in front of the closing one. In fact we redefined the opening brace to be both (Position in between) and the closing brace skips over the next closing brace in the file (which of course you really have to get used to!). > >Has anyone any better suggestions? > I believe our solution not to be better, but it includes a lot less forgotten closing brackets and braces and so is better than learning about the definitions of macros which were created by staff members and are used by the secretaries. If somebody is interested I can mail him the Brief(MsDOS) macro packet, but i have not created any installation support yet. May be that is a way to solve it ??? Yours Stucki -- Christoph von Stuckrad * * ! talk to ! Freie Universitaet Berlin |/__* ! nickname ! ...!unido!fub!leibniz!stucki Fachbereich Mathematik, EDV |\ * ! 'stucki' ! Tel.: 49 30 838-5916 Arnimallee 2-6 * * ! on IRC ! Fax: 49 30 838-5913