From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/70190 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: A cases type environment using a right brace? Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4E282E63.1000805@uni-bonn.de> References: <4E27C51E.5060206@uni-bonn.de> <4E281E82.4080603@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311256189 16491 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2011 13:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:49:49 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 21 15:49:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjtdD-0002ZB-Oi for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBE3CAE4B; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Bvl2+k80cLho; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56364CAE59; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E83CAE59 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id iYp0QLzStL6i for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC0BCAE4B for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p6LDnTxl009902 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:29 +0200 Original-Received: from [87.178.31.66] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de HELO [192.168.0.3]) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTPSA id 66243901 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.220.15.113; country=DE; region=07; city=Bonn; latitude=50.7333; longitude=7.1000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.7333,7.1000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 08FaBNtty - d867f46cb597 - 20110721 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:70190 On 07/21/2011 03:43 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: or perhaps predefined metapost graphics for setting background={metapost:leftbrace,metapost:topbrace}, etc (similar to line shading macros. > > MetaPost is the easier choice because we can add more styles to draw also fancy borders for tables etc. > > Wolfgang In my viewer (okular), it also looks nicer. With the $\left\{ solution, one could see tiny gaps between the parts of the brace. I assume this wouldn't be visible when you print it out, but at large sizes in a presentation, this doesn't look very nice, whereas the metapost solution is perfect. Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________