Re: New math feature requests

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:37:56 -0400 (EDT)
> Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>
>>> [ A long list of feature requests ]
>>>
>>> Here is something that was not in my original list: subformula
>>> numbering.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I was thinking of a better (rather more familar) way of treating
>>> subformulas by imitating the \begin{subequations} ....
>>> \end{subeqations} environment of latex.
>>>
>>> I propose a \startsubformula .... \stopsubformula environment, so
>>> that inside it, I will get subformula numbers rather than formula
>>> numbers. Having discovered conversions (see my previous mail on tagged
>>> formulas), I tried to implement it using conversions. The following
>>> straightforward approach works fine. This is just a stop gap code, I
>>> do not take care of inherting the right settings for formulas, but
>>> it conveys the idea.
>>>
>>> Hans and Taco, can something like this be added to the core? If so, I
>>> will try to make this macro more robust (correct inheritence, etc.)
>>>       
>> Here is a more robust version. I use \??sf as a namespace for 
>> subformulas. I do not think that this is used anywhere else.
>>     
>
> I found nothing where \??sf is used in the ConText core, 
> but it is defined as systemvariable in mult-sys line 552.
>
> --> \definesystemvariable {sf}   % SpeciFics
>
> You should ask Hans if he need it.
>
>   

core-env.tex : 6 :   {\long\setvalue{\??sf#1}{#2}}
core-env.tex : 12 :      \getvalue{\??sf#1}\relax
core-env.tex : 15 :      \getvalue{\??sf#1}\relax

on my machine

Hans

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