Re: Our first formal motion

[Arnold Neumaier <Arnold.Neumaier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bo Einarsson schrieb:
> On the first formal motion "Standardized notation in interval analysis" 
>
> In section 3 regarding the intmacros.sty file it is stated that
> \a and \A etc. be used to denote interval quantities. In the last 
> paragraph some
> exceptions are given for \i and \v and \D which have to be written
> \ii and \vv and \DD in order to avoid conflict with other macros.
>
> A similar conflict appears with the Danish character "O with a slash" and
> the Polish "L with a  small slash"  used in  *Lech Wa?e;sa. *These 
> characters are
> usually written \o \O \l \L and therefore the interval characters should 
> be written
> \oo \OO \ll \LL.
>
> Please note that \aa \AA is used for a Swedish character "A with a 
> circle" (Å), so
> it does NOT work to let the doubling of the character be the standard.


Also, \tt is used for typewriter font.


Since the notation paper was published, several other clashes came to
my attention. Here is my current list of exceptions:

\def\cc {{\bf c}}       % \c needed for c-cedil
\def\ii {{\bf i}}    % \i needed for i without dot
\def\ll {{\bf l}}       % \l needed for l-slash
\def\oo {{\bf o}}       % \o needed for o-slash
\def\rr {{\bf r}}       % \r needed for ring above letter
\def\uu {{\bf u}}    % \u needed for accent
\def\vv {{\bf v}}    % \v needed for check
\def\DD{{\bf D}}    % \D needed for \displaystyle
\def\LL {{\bf L}}       % \L needed for L-slash
\def\OO {{\bf O}}       % \O needed for O-slash
\def\SS {{\bf S}}       % \S needed for paragraph

So I propose that the stylefile is upgraded to reflect this.


Arnold Neumaier