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'



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