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The Opportunity

A proper choice of macro definitions can encode semantic information about the visual layout being used. For instance, an author wishing to use the notation [tex2html_wrap331] to denote the Legendre symbol could define a new command \legendre that produces the desired layout. In the absence of this facility, e.g.,when using an SGML Math DTD that does not know about Legendre symbols, the author would be restricted to encoding [tex2html_wrap333] in terms of the basic operators provided, in this case, the operator that stacks its arguments. Though both encodings would produce the desired visual layout on paper, the encoding using the \legendre macro has the advantage that an application can interpret the use of the notation as meaning a Legendre symbol.



TV Raman
Fri Mar 10 08:30:23 EST 1995