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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: strange output in math display mode
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:24:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151222122445.54aeae16@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <567809EE.1030702@gmail.com>

Wolfgang,

Can you explain to us why it should be preferable for ConTeXt users to
employ \frac12 rather than the native TeX construction {1\over 2}?
I understand that the macro \frac does some additional trickery but the
two constructions should *always* yield identical results (when
keyed-in properly).

Of course, Donald Knuth disagrees with \frac from the point of view
of the aesthetics of the syntax.

Alan



On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:17:18 +0100
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

> > However the command {1 \over 2} gives the correct result.
> > 
> It's a spurious "\??mathstylecache" in math-ini.mkiv and I sent a fix
> to the dev-list.
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-21 13:01 Jeong Dal
2015-12-21 13:14 ` Otared Kavian
2015-12-21 14:17   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-12-22 19:24     ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2015-12-22 22:30       ` Aditya Mahajan
2015-12-23  2:19         ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-12-23  9:17           ` Hans Hagen
2015-12-23 15:16             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-12-23  9:13         ` Hans Hagen
2015-12-23 15:52       ` Hans Hagen
2015-12-23 18:04         ` Alan BRASLAU

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