From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: AMSTeX compatibility: `\dotsb` is not defined
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:52:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304506331.4127.82.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1105032348300.2184@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
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Am Dienstag, den 03.05.2011, 23:54 -0400 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On Tue, 3 May 2011, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > `\dotsb` is not defined although it is defined in AMSTeX (amsmath) [1].
> >
> > Is `\dotsb` not defined intentionally?
>
> I do not completely understand why this command is needed. I think that
> the intent of amstex is that the user should use \dotsb for dots between
> binary operators and then change \dotsb to \cdots or \ldots depending on
> convention. If so, we need to add them to \setupmathematics or perhaps add
> a new command
>
> \setupmathdots[binary=middle,comma=low,...and others...]
>
> or something similar.
I think the question is the following. Does ConTeXt want to define all
commands amstex/amsmath defines?
Thanks,
Paul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 13:46 Paul Menzel
2011-05-03 20:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-04 10:49 ` Paul Menzel
2011-05-04 3:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-05-04 10:52 ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2011-05-04 11:42 ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-09 20:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-05-09 21:13 ` Paul Menzel
2011-05-09 22:27 ` Hans Hagen
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