a new bug in mactex.lisp



On 4/17/06, Andrey G. Grozin <A.G.Grozin at inp.nsk.su> wrote:

> and you get
>
> (A ^ {- B + C })
>
> The sum B+C is not in parenthes, though it should be.

Hmm, this seems to be something of a matter of taste.
Because of the way a^b is typeset, I don't think A^{-B + C} is
ambiguous -- I don't think it can be interpreted as A^{-B} + C or
something else. So the parentheses are optional, aren't they?

When the exponent is a long expression, it seems like A^{(expr)}
is reasonable. But if it is short, then the parentheses are cluttering.

Other opinions?

Robert Dodier