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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv?
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:41:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120717234106.GA3653@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63F71C8E-D5B6-49D3-BEFB-26958BC7C5A3@indiana.edu>

The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long
standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:
> Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :(
> 
> Matthias
> 
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:
> >> \starttext
> >> \startformula \startalign
> >>  v &= u + at \\
> >>  h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\
> >> \stopalign \stopformula
> >> \stoptext
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ---->>
> >> 
> >> ConTeXt  ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV  fmt: 2012.7.17  int: english/english
> >> (...)
> >> ! Missing $ inserted.
> >> 
> >> system          > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...
> >> 
> >> 1     \starttext
> >> 2     \startformula \startalign
> >> 3 >>  v &= u + at \\
> >> 4     h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\
> >> 5     \stopalign \stopformula
> >> 6     \stoptext
> >> 
> >> Thanks -
> > 
> > the context way is:
> > 
> > \startformula \startalign
> > \NC v \NC = u + at \NR
> > \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR
> > \stopalign \stopformula
> > 
> > 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 22:22 Matthias Weber
2012-07-17 23:17 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-17 23:32   ` Matthias Weber
2012-07-17 23:41     ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2012-07-18  1:48       ` Matthias Weber
2012-07-18  3:13         ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-19  1:37           ` Matthias Weber
2012-07-18 10:38         ` Khaled Hosny

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