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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Regression: A^\prime causes `Missing { inserted ...`
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:26:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111124162601.GA4650@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECE5BE9.3000106@wxs.nl>

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:59:53PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 24-11-2011 11:46, Paul Menzel wrote:
> >Dear ConTeXt folks,
> >
> >
> >having upgraded
> >
> >         ConTeXt  ver: 2011.10.14 22:47 MKIV  fmt: 2011.10.15  int: english/english.
> >
> >to
> >
> >         ConTeXt  ver: 2011.11.23 18:58 MKIV  fmt: 2011.11.24  int: english/english
> >
> >With
> >
> >         \starttext
> >         	\placeformula
> >         	\startformula
> >         		A^\prime
> >         	\stopformula
> >         \stoptext
> >
> >I get the following error.
> >
> >         fonts>  fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded
> >         ! Missing { inserted.
> >
> >         system>  tex>  error on line 4 in file exponent-regression..tex: Missing { inserted ...
> >
> >         1     \starttext
> >         2     	\placeformula
> >         3     	\startformula
> >         4>>   		A^\prime
> >         5     	\stopformula
> >         6     \stoptext
> >         7
> >
> >         <to be read again>
> >                            ^
> >         \prime ...char \textfont \zerocount "FE325\relax ^
> >                                                           \bgroup \expandafter \dodo...
> >         l.4 		A^\prime
> >
> >         ?
> >
> >As a workaround `A^{\prime}` can be used.
> 
> Forget about superscripting prime .. that's a traditional tex thing
> as in cm/lm fonts the prime is so big that it has to be
> (super)scripted to look okay.

What about A_\prime? (that is one of the stated reasons in TeXBook on
why \prime in CM is big).

Regards,
 Khaled
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-24 10:46 Paul Menzel
2011-11-24 13:59 ` Xenia
2011-11-24 14:59 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-24 15:39   ` [solved] " Paul Menzel
2011-11-24 16:26   ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-11-24 16:31     ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-24 16:40       ` Khaled Hosny

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