Re: AMSTeX compatibility: `\dotsb` is not defined

[Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>]

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Am Montag, den 09.05.2011, 16:47 -0400 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> > On 4-5-2011 12:52, Paul Menzel wrote:
> >
> >> I think the question is the following. Does ConTeXt want to define all
> >> commands amstex/amsmath defines?
> >
> > You need to convince Aditya then as he has to make up that list.
> 
> I think that ConTeXt should be feature compatible with amstex; not 
> necessarily syntax compatible. Although syntax compatibility eases the 
> translation of old amstex documents to ConTeXt, it is not a good long 
> term solution.
> 
> So, the question remains, is this feature (changing the meaning of 
> \dotsb etc) by authors?

s/by/needed by/?

If it takes more than 10 minutes to implement or increases the
maintenance burden, I can live without it.

> If so, we can add an option to \setupmathematics or a dedicated
> \setupdots (or something similar) command.

That sounds like a feasible solution.


Thanks,

Paul



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