From: Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re[2]: Mathematics in ConTeXt?
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:13:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0183493299.20020915151354@iol.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vg0y9a37czu.fsf@frodo.imf.au.dk>
Sunday, September 15, 2002 Emil Hedevang Lohse wrote:
EHL> It makes typesetting beautiful mathematics really easy and is very
EHL> convenient to use.
EHL> 1. There is no need to use \left and \right to make delimiters fit
EHL> their content. (, ) and others automatically scale and they do so
EHL> cleverly, not like \left and \right.
EHL> 2. Backping "`" can be used to typeset the following word in roman
EHL> letters, that is, $`Mat_{n,m}$ or $`GL(n)$ can be used instead of
EHL> $\Mat_{n,m}$ and $\GL(n)$ where I also have to make up a macro for
EHL> every abbreviation.
EHL> 3. Multiline subscripts are made by just typing a \\.
EHL> 4. There is a \wall-\return construct that makes alignment nice too.
EHL> 5. Fractions are also handled cleverly.
EHL> Please take a look at
EHL> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nath/nathguide.pdf
EHL> I don't consider Nath to be perfect, but it is indeed better than both
EHL> regular LaTeX and Plain TeX.
Nath is a hell of a good program. I'm surprised that Taco doesn't
remember it, since it was presented at EuroTeX2001 ... :)
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-15 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-14 17:53 Emil Hedevang Lohse
2002-09-14 18:15 ` John Culleton
2002-09-14 19:05 ` Emil Hedevang Lohse
2002-09-15 8:34 ` Taco
2002-09-15 10:39 ` Emil Hedevang Lohse
2002-09-15 13:13 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2002-09-16 8:19 ` Re[2]: " Taco Hoekwater
2002-09-16 11:30 ` David Antos
2002-09-16 20:31 ` Hans Hagen
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