[comp.text] the "meaning" brackets of Montague in LaTeX

gefuchs@skolem.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) (05/07/89)

Any body familiar with the Denotation Semantics brackets which yield
the meaning?

kinda look like,      ----       ----
                      ||           ||
                      ||     A     ||   = "meaning" of A
                      ||           ||
                      ----       ----


well,  i can't find it in LL's book, is it part of some other font?
       if not, how would one go about defining it in TeX?

thanks
a meaningless logician is a logician without brackets...
gill

iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) (05/09/89)

In article <1526@cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs@skolem.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:

>   Any body familiar with the Denotation Semantics brackets which yield
>   the meaning?

>   kinda look like,      ----       ----
>			 ||           ||
>			 ||     A     ||   = "meaning" of A
>			 ||           ||
>			 ----       ----
>   well,  i can't find it in LL's book, is it part of some other font?
>	  if not, how would one go about defining it in TeX?

The brackets used in the Haskell report were produced by overprinting pairs of
`[' and `]', they look fine, here's the definition

\newcommand{\lsem}{\lbrack\!\lbrack}
\newcommand{\rsem}{\rbrack\!\rbrack}

\! is a small negative space
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bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) (05/12/89)

How about

\def\lmean{[\hskip-.1em[}
\def\rmean{]\hskip-.em]}

What is \lfoo\ this \rfoo\ ?
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