From: Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda@rna.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt equivalent for \ensuremath?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:54:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3174c268c21997de08d338255598529a@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050311145716.GC5540@puritan.pcp.ath.cx>
On Mar 11, 2005, at 15:57, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>> \newcommand{\ensuremath}[1]{\ifmmode\expandafter\FirtsOfOne%
>> \else\expandafter\EnsuredMath\fi}
>> \long\def\FirstOfOne#1{#1}
>> \long\def\EnsuredMath#1{$\relax#1$}
>> \newcommand{\bit}[2]{\ensuremath{\hbox{\tf #1}_\hbox{\tf #2}}}
>
>> but is there a ConTeXt way of doing this?
>
> \mathematics{...},
> nikolai
>
Replacing \ensuremath above with \mathematics gives an error (both
attempts):
>> \newcommand{\bit}[2]{\mathematics{\hbox{\tf #1}_\hbox{\tf #2}}}
>> \newcommand{\bit}[2]{\mathematics{{\hbox{\tf #1}_\hbox{\tf #2}}}}
> ! Missing { inserted.
> <to be read again>
> \hbox
> <argument> \hbox {\tf b}_\hbox
> {\tf off}
> \mathematics #1->\relax \ifmmode #1\else $#1
> $\fi
> l.53 ...er off or on, lets call these \bit{b}{off}
> and
But my way also doesn't work. I get empty output as a result of the
\bit{b}{off} command.
Help?
G
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 14:46 Gerben Wierda
2005-03-11 14:57 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-03-11 15:54 ` Gerben Wierda [this message]
2005-03-11 17:20 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-03-11 18:03 ` Gerben Wierda
2005-03-13 21:24 ` h h extern
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