use of emphasize for math in the HTML GMP manual

Torbjörn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Sun Oct 23 12:20:20 CEST 2022


Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> writes:

  GMP currently uses emphasize for math in the HTML GMP manual,
  via @math{...} (and MPFR has copied to it). For instance, for
  mpz_mul_2exp, one has "Set rop to op1 times 2 raised to op2." where
  the whole "op1 times 2 raised to op2" is emphasized, i.e. typically
  rendered in italics (or with a different color with lynx).

  While I agree that variables should be in italics (@var ensures
  that), having full text about math in italics seems wrong.

Our rendering of maths really ought to be much better.  I started a
rewrite of all maths formulas some years ago, but never finished it.

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Torbjörn
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