10 Apr
2019
10 Apr
'19
2:41 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:09:31 +0200
Otared Kavian
The problem of such an usual default is also with newcomers who would not know about this feature in ConTeXt: when one writes maths one would not guess that typing an inequality like $n < -1$ would end up in $n \leftarrow 1$. And writing such inequalities is very common… while \leftarrow is used seldom in a mathematical text. So I think having the default collapsing=1 would be more logical, and more in line with the spirit of TeX.
I hope Aditya will be convinced…
And since we have utf-8 input, such "features" are anachronistic and should not be on by default. ← Alan