From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9267 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Mathematics in ConTeXt? Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:31:48 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020916221203.026e8270@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399603 1847 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Emil Hedevang Lohse In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9267 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9267 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------