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Just some obvious stuff at maximal partial function to satisfy some links.
Is a common notation for partial functions? I’ve seen much more frequently.
The slash notation is something I’d associate more with general relations. Over at Engeler’s lemma I adopted the notation.
I really wanted ‘⇸’, with a vertical bar, but LaTeX doesn't seem to have that, and the MathML doesn't come out right when I put it in with Unicode. Either way is fine with me.
What do you mean by “the MathML doesn’t come out right?” I’ve used ⇸
for barred arrows elsewhere on the lab. (But I also don’t think of it as meaning a partial function, rather a general relation or profunctor, just like .)
Compare the MathML in the HTML source of the lines below:
The arrow in the top line is properly rendered as a relation, while the arrow in the bottom line is not. This potentially affects the spacing; in my browser, at least, there is space in the top line that the bottom line misses.
It's not reasonable to expect iTeX to invent TeX-like names for every Unicode symbol, much less to guess at the proper catcode of a symbol given directly. What iTeX really needs is to respect \mathrel
; then we could do this right. (Or I could put in direct MathML, but I really don't want to get into that!) So I generally try to avoid using symbols that iTeX doesn't know (unless I really like them).
I would rather use a correct symbol, even if the spacing comes out wrong, but I can see your point.
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