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From: Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re:  Deprecated $…$ for inline math?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:56:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216095619.74618c47@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n9um7v$eau$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:22:23 +0100
Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com> wrote:

> I read in the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math) that $…$
> for inline math is deprecated in favor of \m{…} and more verbose
> variants. Is that really the case? If so, what is the reason and
> what are the differences?

When \asciimode is used you can input special characters without
escaping: $5, 1%, etc. But this of course changes the syntax for the
original constructs. Comments use %%, inline math becomes \math{…}
or shorter \m{…}.

More detailed explanation (credits to Aditya):

  https://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/some-thoughts-on-lowering-the-learning-curve-for-using-tex-part-i/

I like the new syntax and almost always use it, but I don't believe
it's use is wide-spread.

Marco
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16  8:22 Nicola
2016-02-16  8:54 ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 15:21   ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 15:59     ` Marco Patzer
2016-02-16 16:20       ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16 19:12         ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-16 18:50       ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-16 19:18       ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17  7:31         ` Otared Kavian
2016-02-17  9:44           ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-17 16:32             ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 18:24               ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-02-17 20:45                 ` Rogers, Michael K
2016-02-17 22:18                 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-17 23:40                   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-02-18  0:38                     ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-02-18  9:22                       ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18  9:57                         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 20:37                         ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-02-18 21:01                           ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18  9:16                     ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-18  9:25                       ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-02-16 16:16     ` Hans Hagen
2016-02-16  8:56 ` Marco Patzer [this message]

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