Re: New math feature requests

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:37:56 -0400 (EDT)
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >
> > [ A long list of feature requests ]
> >
> > Here is something that was not in my original list: subformula
> > numbering.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I was thinking of a better (rather more familar) way of treating
> > subformulas by imitating the \begin{subequations} ....
> > \end{subeqations} environment of latex.
> >
> > I propose a \startsubformula .... \stopsubformula environment, so
> > that inside it, I will get subformula numbers rather than formula
> > numbers. Having discovered conversions (see my previous mail on tagged
> > formulas), I tried to implement it using conversions. The following
> > straightforward approach works fine. This is just a stop gap code, I
> > do not take care of inherting the right settings for formulas, but
> > it conveys the idea.
> >
> > Hans and Taco, can something like this be added to the core? If so, I
> > will try to make this macro more robust (correct inheritence, etc.)
> 
> Here is a more robust version. I use \??sf as a namespace for 
> subformulas. I do not think that this is used anywhere else.

I found nothing where \??sf is used in the ConText core, 
but it is defined as systemvariable in mult-sys line 552.

--> \definesystemvariable {sf}   % SpeciFics

You should ask Hans if he need it.

Wolfgang