[Texmacs-dev] Fwd: TeXmacs: why is \ensuremath needed for conversion to LaTeX

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Hi Joris, Hi all,

 wrt. to the reply below: is not known to TeXmacs whether we are in LaTeX math mode or not? We should be able to precompute this and avoid \ensuremath all the way (apart from macro definitions). Or there are some issues there?

Best

Max

ps:  I've moved the discussion to texmacs-dev.

Begin forwarded message:

From: TeXmacs <texmacs@lix.polytechnique.fr>

Subject: Re: TeXmacs: why is \ensuremath needed for conversion to LaTeX

Date: 7. May 2021 at 17:46:26 CEST

To: texmacs-users@texmacs.org

Reply-To: TeXmacs <texmacs@lix.polytechnique.fr>

Hi Frank,

For a systematic export tool, it is better to be redundant than
as tight as possible, but occasionally buggy.

The LaTeX export should be robust with respect to user errors,
such as using a mathematical primitive in text mode.
In my test files, such errors are rare, but they occur,
and we don't want them to break the conversion.

Best wishes, --Joris



On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 05:30:27PM +0200, Frank wrote:

Dear all,

I spotted that the tex file converted from TeXmacs is filled with \ensuremath{\operatorname{...}}. I wonder why the \ensuremath is needed. This seems redundant in my document.

Best wishes,
Frank