From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
"Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>,
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior in math mode: < and minus sign give leftarrow
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:53:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <016e36eb-7930-2dc6-4236-2e83a6576142@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHy-LL-J2iv_jTLv87U5xA8dJRj_OGSPgqZhW0eo8NjodnQ0Vg@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/10/2019 9:40 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:21 AM Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> While testing old documents with lmtx, I noticed that with recent versions of mkiv, as well as LuaMetaTeX, there is a strange behavior in math mode: when the characters < and - follow each other one gets \leftarrow… This is embarrassing when one writes inequalities for negative numbers.
>> So one has to separate them in order to obtain with curly braces. Can this be fixed or is it intended ?
>>
>> \starttext
>> $\alpha < -1$
>>
>> $\alpha \leftarrow 1$
>>
>> $\alpha < {-1}$
>>
>> $\alpha {<} - 1$
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Best regards: OK
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>
> Hi!
>
> I asked about this before, and it is a feature.
>
> It can be switched off with
>
> \setupmathematics[
> collapsing=1,
> ]
>
> Hope it helps!
Indeed. Aditya is in charge of decisions about these defaults so if you
want it differently you need to convince him. (I'm not sure how many
users depend on it.)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-10 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 7:21 Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 7:40 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2019-04-10 7:53 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-04-10 8:09 ` Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 14:41 ` Alan Braslau
2019-04-10 12:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-04-10 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 7:57 ` Otared Kavian
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