From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Commands with arguments before in ConTeXt
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:21:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f71e8e0-1a07-8f67-7f35-7d3c99aa9c0a@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F1C2D43-CBBF-4E14-8589-C7883535A3D9@elvenkind.com>
On 6/29/2020 1:06 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Sorry, that was a bit too much oversimplification:
>
>> On 29 Jun 2020, at 12:36, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>
>> In math mode, there *is* an expression state maintained, and that is why \over and \atop work.
>
> Actually (still oversimplifying), the found commands are saved in a temporary list,
> that is then reprocessed once math mode has ended. And at that stage, an expression tree is built up.
another way to look at it is to think of each {...} being a subformula, so
{1} \over {2}
are two subformulas combined into one larger subformula
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-29 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-28 20:48 Jairo A. del Rio
2020-06-29 7:28 ` Hans Hagen
2020-06-29 10:15 ` Jairo A. del Rio
2020-06-29 10:36 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-06-29 11:06 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-06-29 13:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-06-30 0:18 ` Jairo A. del Rio
2020-06-29 7:50 ` luigi scarso
2020-06-29 10:21 ` Jairo A. del Rio
2020-06-29 13:27 ` Hans Hagen
2020-06-29 13:48 ` Jairo A. del Rio
2020-06-29 14:45 ` Hans Hagen
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