From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9227 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: Mathematics in ConTeXt? Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:13:54 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <0183493299.20020915151354@iol.it> References: <200209141415.40782.john@wexfordpress.com> <20020915103453.37d2ce05.taco@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399568 1555 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:59:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Emil Hedevang Lohse In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9227 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9227 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