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I don't follow your claim that because \ensuremath might let some LaTeX users become lazy (in itself a debatable statement), the spacing in math expressions would somehow become incorrect.

Mico
– Mico

2013-02-25 02:38:43 +00:00
Commented Feb 25, 2013 at 2:38
@Mico See my edit, which should clarify things. You've never seen questionable typesetting by "casual" users of LaTeX? ;-) Especially for spacing matters, a lot of casual users make mistakes or have no good sense of what good practice is.

Lover of Structure
– Lover of Structure

2013-02-25 03:02:07 +00:00
Commented Feb 25, 2013 at 3:02
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@Mico Maybe it isn't about encouraging laziness but, rather, about encouraging bad habits where this is not a matter of laziness. If somebody is coming from a word processor, not thinking in terms of modes is natural; thinking in terms of modes is alien. So if it more-or-less works without switching modes, you don't need to be lazy to get into the habit of not switching in LaTeX either. But I don't find the accusation of laziness a helpful or illuminating one. It chalks up to character defects what would be better understood in terms of word processor vs. LaTeX conceptual schemes.

cfr
– cfr

2015-09-15 22:59:07 +00:00
Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 22:59
Why even have a macro language at all if you aren't going to use it to let users be lazy and avoid having to deal with the low level details of the interface? Wouldn't the better solution be to fix the inconsistent appearance of math operators between math and TeX mode or at least warn the user? Ok, maybe you can't avoid the need to specify but surely a well designed system could spit out a warning whenever a symbol that had both math and non-math interpretations occurred between math mode elements.

Peter Gerdes
– Peter Gerdes

2024-02-26 21:00:28 +00:00
Commented Feb 26, 2024 at 21:00

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