From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Math typesetting problems
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:59:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61EE24DE-CCC2-4007-9797-25605D08C028@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1301281545070.21159@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Am 28.01.2013 um 21:48 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>>> I'll look into fractions later this week. All the fraction macros of ConTeXt were based on \genfrac macro from AMSTeX so, in principle, they should behave in the same manner.
>>
>> The \frac command uses \vcenter for the content while \dfrac and \tfrac only set the mathstyle before placing the content with the \over primitive.
>
> Then something has been lost in the MkII -> MkIV transition. I am pretty sure (cannot check right now), that the code in MkII used \genfrac (which is a fancy wrapper around \over \ovewithdelim etc)
Yes, MkII uses \genfrac but in MkIV the command is no longer available and all fraction commands have been rewritten.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-27 11:52 Janne Junnila
2013-01-27 12:09 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-01-27 13:11 ` Janne Junnila
2013-01-27 14:50 ` Rogers, Michael K
2013-01-27 15:13 ` Roland Thiers
2013-01-28 9:11 ` Janne Junnila
2013-01-28 17:34 ` Roland Thiers
2013-01-28 19:41 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-01-28 20:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-28 20:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-01-28 20:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-01-28 23:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-04-06 21:35 ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-28 20:56 ` Otared Kavian
2013-01-28 21:09 ` Aditya Mahajan
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