[TxMt] simple LaTeX bundle question

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Nov 6, 2005, at 11:21 PM, Eric Hsu wrote:


> While we're talking about the bundle...  my number one activity in  
> writing LaTeX is going in and out of math mode as in
>
> \( blah \) and \[ foo \].
>
> What is the officially encouraged LaTeX bundle way of shortening  
> that task?
>
>
Ah yes, excellent question. I'd like to know the answer to that  
myself. I guess the desired behavior (at least for me) would be:
1) Type \(, and magically a \) appears, and your cursor stands  
between them.
2) Type in the stuff, and then press tab to move outside the \).
I would expect this would be the ideal situation for an input  
pattern? What is the status with those, are they on the todo?
At the very least it would be ideal that when \( is typed,  \(\)  
appears, instead of \().
I actually encounter this problem when I want to describe sets in  
math mode, where I need to introduce \{\}, and instead I get \{}. I  
remember discussing this a long time ago, and it wasn't possible to  
implement as smart pairs the way things were back then. Not sure if  
they have changed now.

Another possibility I guess would be to first type the math inside,  
and then have a macro similar to the Ctrl-shft-< one take care of the  
rest. In that case, maybe we could decide on some appropriate  
shortcuts for it, e.g. ctrl-shift-( for \( and ctrl-shift-[ for \[  ?
Same goes for the $$ pair by the way. I'd love to have a similar  
macro for  that one. I can put one dollar sign around selected text  
easily enough, but for two dollar signs I'd need to select it again.


> - Eric
> -- 
> Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
> San Francisco State University
> erichsu at math.sfsu.edu
> http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu
>

Haris