On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:47:33AM +0200, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 11 Jul 2012, at 03:51, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> > It can be handled at a different level; when one types 3:5 in a
> > Unicode-complient TeX engine, what gets output to the output file is the
> > ratio not the colon, and colon gets output with 3\colon{}5.
>
> Actually, TeX does it wrongly relative Unicode: a colon ":" in the
> input file should expand TeX $\colon$, whereas "∶" RATIO U+2236 should
> expand to TeX $:$.
It is a kind of primitive input method, like using / for division slash
and * for asterisk operator, and ratio is more frequent in math than the
colon. (original TeX handled this by having different glyphs/glyph
classes in math than TeX, Unicode-compliant TeX engines map them to the
appropriate Unicode character).
Regards,
Khaled
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