Last modified: 2014-10-19 17:55:25 UTC
Is it possible to add internationalization support into TEX engine? Here in Russia mostly used different mathematical notation. For example, * Instead of sinh, cosh, tanh names for hyperbolic functions used sh, ch, th etc. * Notation for binomonal coefficients also differ: insteat of parenthesis used somethng like big C with indexes: n k ( ) = C k n It would be nice if the \binomial tag could show different output depending on in which language the page is.
That seems like the wrong way to do it: it would seem more sensible to just provide reasonable ways to typeset those notations regardless of the content language. Currently, one can use <math>\mathrm{sh}\,x</math> and <math>\mathrm{C}^k_n</math> to render "sh x" and "C^k_n" the way I assume you want them, but I agree that having to use \mathrm (or \operatorname or \mbox) is awkward. It would be nice to have at least the operators \sh, \ch and \th available, and perhaps some shorter way to typeset a roman capital C. (\C won't do, though; it's already defined to produce a "blackboard bold" C, used to denote the complex numbers.) Ps. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula#Functions.2C_symbols.2C_special_characters
Some other differences include: cot = ctg tan = tg csc = cosec coth = cth also inverse functions differ (by analogy)
This would require a different input format like sTeX or content MathML. I'm not aware of any software that has the feature described in the bug report. So it would be good to have a standalone demo of this feature before integrating that to the MediaWiki Math extension.
