Re: Mathematics in ConTeXt?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:23 PM 9/14/2002 +0200, Emil Hedevang Lohse wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I would like to know if there has been made any progress in making a
>math module for ConTeXt, or is it still just the math of Plain TeX?

i'm in the process of cleaning up the math module cq. moving a couple of 
things to the kernel (for the moment in m-newmat); the breqn stuff is not 
always wanted so that will remain in a separate math module (that's taco's 
speciality).

Actually, there is not that much special math needed. When someone misses 
something: provide me an example, + the corresponding tex/latex/ams code 
and I will contextify it.

Also, in context there are thing slike: user defined math environments, 
each with their own justification and margins, spacing, etc

>Personally I really like (most of) the functionallity of Nath, a LaTeX
>package.

I remember the talk, sounded like an ok and nice package to me, but the 
author told me that he has no plans to make it generic

I just took a quick look at the file:

defines a couple of ifs
does quite some catcode changes
defines local macros with potential conflicting names
a bit of fontdimen trickery
everymath nilling
dollar trickery
isolated equation number handling
hardcoded dimensions
redefinitions of low level (math) macros
redefines quads to fixed measures (sic)
always frenchspacing

so i would probably have to reimplement most of it from scratch ; i also 
wonder how the code cooperates with latex and many styles (for instance 
font settings followed by loading nath versus reverse order)

maybe some day ...

Hans
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