Re: abbreviations as macros (Aditya Mahajan)

[Armin Varmaz <arvo_77@web.de>]

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>Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:10:21 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Aditya Mahajan [
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>Subject: Re: [NTG-context] abbreviations as macros
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>On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, ivo welch wrote:
>
>
>If you never need to use a full form of the abbreviation, then you can 
>just use the same in ConTeXt. The equivalent of \ensuremath is \math; 
>everything else is the same.
>
>\define\NPV{\text{NPV\math{_0}}
>
>I would, however, write this slightly differently (even in LaTeX) as
>
>\math{\text{NPV}_0}
>
>but that is just a stylistic issue.
>
>> Is there a recommended way to do this on conTeXt?
>
>The usual way of defining abbreviations in ConTeXt is
>
>\abbreviation [NPV] {\math{\text{NPV}_0}} {full form}
>
>Then you can use
>
>\NPV\ for a short form of the abbreviation and \infull{NPV} for the full 
>form. The advantage is that you can also get a list of used abbreviations.
>
>
>Aditya

Hi Aditya,

can you tell me how I can ensure as in AMSmath that the font size in abbreviations automatically match the font size of current text?  see my example below. 

Best Armin

******** EXAMPLE

\definealternativestyle[ImportantStyle][{\definedfont[Kurier-Bold at 24pt]}]


\definetextbackground[zhu]
 [location=paragraph,
 background=color,backgroundcolor=orange,
 leftoffset=0.5\bodyfontsize,rightoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,
 topoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,bottomoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,
 style=ImportantStyle,
 frame=off]


\startsetups important:start
 \starttextbackground[zhu] 
\stopsetups


\startsetups important:stop
 \endgraf
 \stoptextbackground
\stopsetups


\definestartstop
 [important]
 [before=\setups{important:start},
 after=\setups{important:stop}]

\abbreviation [NPV] {\math{\text{NPV}}} {full form} 

\starttext

this looks normal $x$, \NPV.

\startimportant
this looks bad \mathematics{x}, \NPV.
\stopimportant

this looks normal $x$, \NPV.

\stoptext

******** END EXAMPLE
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