From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68319 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Menzel Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: AMSTeX compatibility: `\dotsb` is not defined Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 23:13:10 +0200 Message-ID: <1304975590.3939.118.camel@mattotaupa> References: <1304430417.13481.54.camel@mattotaupa> <1304506331.4127.82.camel@mattotaupa> <4DC13BC1.9000301@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1891095278==" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304975608 859 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 21:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:13:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon May 09 23:13:20 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 1QJXlY-000734-0o for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 23:13:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFECCACCB; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:19 +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 q2gqa24JhkBZ; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFADDCACC8; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A57BCACC8 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:15 +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 BH1R2mMdl70z for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE6DCACAF for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.gw90.de (mail.gw90.de [188.40.100.199]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p49LDCsL027337 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 23:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from f053041075.adsl.alicedsl.de ([78.53.41.75] 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 1QJXmd-0004JU-8b for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 09 May 2011 21:14:27 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 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: 0cEFxdcib - f07701ec503e - 20110509 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 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:68319 Archived-At: --===============1891095278== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Sp7nmBLp0J0TCZ/4LUNv" --=-Sp7nmBLp0J0TCZ/4LUNv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Montag, den 09.05.2011, 16:47 -0400 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > On Wed, 4 May 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > I think that ConTeXt should be feature compatible with amstex; not=20 > necessarily syntax compatible. Although syntax compatibility eases the= =20 > translation of old amstex documents to ConTeXt, it is not a good long=20 > term solution. >=20 > So, the question remains, is this feature (changing the meaning of=20 > \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. 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