[texhax] help with identifying some macros
Lars Madsen
daleif at imf.au.dk
Tue Oct 20 10:56:27 CEST 2009
Uwe Lück wrote:
> At 13:24 18.10.09, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> [...] the naming should show the mathematical meaning of the symbol,
>> not describing how it looks. Such that when reading the code the
>> equation starts to resemble how it is actually read out loud.
>
> At this point I just would like to know: do you read out loud "cap" and
> "cup", or do you say something like "union of" or "intersection of",
> resembling the German reading out loud?
>
> -- Uwe.
>
I would rename them into something like \union and \intersection, X \cap
Y does not make any sense.
The major problem is that texts prepared for blind to read, needs to be
written with a blind audience in mind.
At least naming symbols in a way such that equations make sense when
spoken, then one does not actually need to know that many symbols.
/daleif
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