From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68150 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Menzel Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: AMSTeX compatibility: `\dotsb` is not defined Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:46:57 +0200 Message-ID: <1304430417.13481.54.camel@mattotaupa> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2036136090==" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304430444 7528 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2011 13:47:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 13:47:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 03 15:47:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFwe-0002kw-8s for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 15:47:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3532ECAC87; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id R4DRVXummavx; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901DDCAC82; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77377CAC82 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PIzSyD6f4lyG for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDB7CAC3F for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.gw90.de (mail.gw90.de [188.40.100.199]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p43Dkx3a003543 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:47:00 +0200 Original-Received: from f053037176.adsl.alicedsl.de ([78.53.37.176] helo=[192.168.178.21]) by mail.gw90.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFxI-0007zn-8a for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 03 May 2011 13:48:00 +0000 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=188.40.100.199; country=DE; latitude=51.0000; longitude=9.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.0000,9.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dED1KXBN - 72f5ed3d1abd - 20110503 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68150 Archived-At: --===============2036136090== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-t/Nw7GLtODotR5O+un0P" --=-t/Nw7GLtODotR5O+un0P Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-UUKuF2SGqChxHVAlSL0f" --=-UUKuF2SGqChxHVAlSL0f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear ConTeXt folks, `\dotsb` is not defined although it is defined in AMSTeX (amsmath) [1]. Please find the following minimal example also attached. \starttext This throws an error, since =C2=BB\backslash dotsb=C2=AB is not def= ined. =20 \startformula 1 + 2 + 3 + \dotsb + n =3D \frac{n}{2} (n + 1) \stopformula \stoptext This is the error. [=E2=80=A6] system > begin file dotsb.tex at line 1 ! Undefined control sequence. =20 system > tex > error on line 5 in file dotsb.tex: Undefine= d control sequence ... =20 1 \starttext 2 This throws an error, since =C2=BB\backslash dotsb=C2=AB is n= ot defined. 3 =20 4 \startformula 5 >> 1 + 2 + 3 + \dotsb + n =3D \frac{n}{2} (n + 1) 6 \stopformula 7 \stoptext 8 =20 =20 l.5 1 + 2 + 3 + \dotsb + n =3D \frac{n}{2} (n + 1) ? [=E2=80=A6] Is `\dotsb` not defined intentionally? 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