From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30810 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Missing \dddot and \ddddot Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4509A537.8040402@wxs.nl> References: <45094609.9090206@cs.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158260047 5578 80.91.229.2 (14 Sep 2006 18:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 14 20:54:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNwLZ-00083m-5l for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7935A1FCBB; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:54:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27694-01; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470AC1FD0A; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C51D1FD0A for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27472-06 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D1F01FCBB for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 7065 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:46 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30810 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, WN wrote: > > >> Hello, >> I need to use \dddot and \ddddot in one of my documents, does anyone >> know how to >> define these math symbols. >> > > The trouble is that most fonts do not contain these accents. > amsmath.sty gets over this definition by faking these symbols. It is > easy to port these definitions to context. > > amsmath.sty definition > > \newcommand{\dddot}[1]{% > {\mathop{#1}\limits^{\vbox to-1.4\ex@{\kern-\tw@\ex@ > \hbox{\normalfont ...}\vss}}}} > \newcommand{\ddddot}[1]{% > {\mathop{#1}\limits^{\vbox to-1.4\ex@{\kern-\tw@\ex@ > \hbox{\normalfont....}\vss}}}} > > > Converting to context > > %--------------------%<------------------------------------ > \unprotect > > % The true copy of amsmath definitions > \def\amsdddot {\limits^{\vbox to -1.4ex{\kern-2ex\hbox{\the\textfont\z@ ...}\vss}}} > \def\amsddddot{\limits^{\vbox to -1.4ex{\kern-2ex\hbox{\the\textfont\z@....}\vss}}} > > % I do not understand why you need to give negative height > \setbox\scratchbox{..} \ht\scratchbox0pt \dp\scratchbox-2pt > % This looks better. > \def\amsdddot {\limits^{\vbox{\kern-2ex\hbox{\the\textfont\z@ ...}\vss}}} > \def\amsddddot{\limits^{\vbox{\kern-2ex\hbox{\the\textfont\z@....}\vss}}} > > \def\dddot #1{{\mathop{#1}\amsdddot }} > \def\ddddot#1{{\mathop{#1}\amsddddot}} > > \protect > > \starttext > > $\dddot{a}_{\dddot{b}}$ > > $\ddddot{a}_{\ddddot{b}}$ > \stoptext > %------------------------%<------------------------------------- > > Aditya > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------