My document will contain a lot of equations, and as usual in that case I would like to use "punctuation" in the equations, like commas, colons, periods/full stops, semicolons, etc.
Is there a special way to correctly do that? Now I just type these characters at the end of the equations, but as it's in math mode maybe there is a better way that improve the spacing, etc.
I also read about \colon
, \ldotp
. What do they do that the normal "characters" don't?
\colon
changes the spacing for use in defining a function:f \colon A \to B
, it would look funny if used as a colon serving its normal text purpose. – Seamus Feb 23 '11 at 12:16