On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:19:45PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> >
> > Just to get it right: Your prefered behaviour is
> >
> > '<change-to-cal> L <change-to-normal>'
> >
> > to enter \mathcal{L}? What make this superior to
> >
> > '<change-to-one-shot-cal> L'
> >
> > except that "it is different than outside" mathed? [The difference is
> > obviously not nice, but mathed _is_ used differently]
>
> I'm with Andre on this, definitely: single character font changes are
> much more common than multiple ones, within mathed.
Most font commands should not be used directly.
For example, if you want to use bold to denote vectors,
you should not write \mathbf{x} but \vec{x} where \vec is a macro:
\newcommand{\vec}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}
So the behavior of direct insertion bold doesn't matter much.
