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At 01:46 PM 1/22/2002 +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>There is also another thing. Amsmath defines a large amount of
>environments, and I don't see why we should mimic that in
>context. A command like:
>
>\startdisplaymath[<label>][type=eqalign,location=left,number=no]
>.....
>\stopdisplaymath
>
>should be enough, yes?

right, actually, there is already

   \defineformulaalternative

(see core-mat.tex)

some 2+4 types are predefined, like:

% sp = single line paragraph  sd = single line display
% mp = multi  line paragraph  md = multy  line display

is is no problem to extend this mechanism

Hans
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