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Date:         Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:13:03 GMT
From: Phillip Helbig <helbig@MAN.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: Math environments and punctuation
Status: R

> In traditional math typesetting also displayed formulas should have
> punctuation (like a comma or a period). I do not use that as it is hard to
> position, and could be confused to belong to the formula.
>
>   But some typesetters still want to put that in. So it seems me that the
> math environments should be able to detect if followed by a punctuation and
> the be able to choose from a style if that punctuation mark should be
> displayed or not in the formula.

I've run in to this as well.  However, depending on the context, the
punctuation might be . , ; ! : or whatever.  I don't see how LaTeX could
guess this from the context.

Easier would be to define yourself (or in the appropriate journal class;
perhaps that discussion will rear its ugly head again soon) things like
\period, \comma and so on which you could stick in before the
\end{equation}.  You could define them to correspond to their names or
just to do nothing as the style required.


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