From: Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv?
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:48:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6D958337-D8E9-413E-AC6B-6B874538EF5D@indiana.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717234106.GA3653@khaled-laptop>
It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. For me, the problem is now to change the 200+ occurrences of start/stopaligns distributed over dozens of files to the politically correct syntax.
Matthias
On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
> The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long
> standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of.
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:
>> Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :(
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:
>>>> \starttext
>>>> \startformula \startalign
>>>> v &= u + at \\
>>>> h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\
>>>> \stopalign \stopformula
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---->>
>>>>
>>>> ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english
>>>> (...)
>>>> ! Missing $ inserted.
>>>>
>>>> system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...
>>>>
>>>> 1 \starttext
>>>> 2 \startformula \startalign
>>>> 3 >> v &= u + at \\
>>>> 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\
>>>> 5 \stopalign \stopformula
>>>> 6 \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> Thanks -
>>>
>>> the context way is:
>>>
>>> \startformula \startalign
>>> \NC v \NC = u + at \NR
>>> \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR
>>> \stopalign \stopformula
>>>
>>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-18 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 22:22 Matthias Weber
2012-07-17 23:17 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-17 23:32 ` Matthias Weber
2012-07-17 23:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-07-18 1:48 ` Matthias Weber [this message]
2012-07-18 3:13 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-19 1:37 ` Matthias Weber
2012-07-18 10:38 ` Khaled Hosny
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