On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:19:51PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Until we have context sensitive bindings, consider this patch:
This is ok, but it does not really change the concept, does it? It saves a few keystrokes and takes a few "free" key bindings... > It is REALLY REALLY WRONG to "overload" things like ctrl-e to produce > emph in text and cal in math. Sure. But that was not my idea. > With bold (ctrl-b for textbf/mathbf) you may argue that the user > 'expects' it, but still... that's only what people have gotten used to. I > say, no overloading without an official mechanism. This way is much > cleaner. (Yes, for super/subscripts \textbf and \mathbf behave > differently for font size; so I say they *are* different -- just like in > the emph/cal case!) We are able to use \mathbf by typing \mathbf and \textbf by typing \textbf. If a user wants to save keystrokes, he can bind that. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)