[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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