* Is startalign broken in mkiv? @ 2012-07-17 22:22 Matthias Weber 2012-07-17 23:17 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-17 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 506 bytes --] \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 - Matthias [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 3206 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 485 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-17 22:22 Is startalign broken in mkiv? Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-17 23:17 ` Hans Hagen 2012-07-17 23:32 ` Matthias Weber 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2012-07-17 23:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users; +Cc: Matthias Weber 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-17 23:17 ` Hans Hagen @ 2012-07-17 23:32 ` Matthias Weber 2012-07-17 23:41 ` Khaled Hosny 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-17 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Hagen; +Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-17 23:32 ` Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-17 23:41 ` Khaled Hosny 2012-07-18 1:48 ` Matthias Weber 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Khaled Hosny @ 2012-07-17 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users; +Cc: Hans Hagen 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 > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > > | www.pragma-pod.nl > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-17 23:41 ` Khaled Hosny @ 2012-07-18 1:48 ` Matthias Weber 2012-07-18 3:13 ` Rogers, Michael K 2012-07-18 10:38 ` Khaled Hosny 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-18 1:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE >>> Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands >>> tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com >>> | www.pragma-pod.nl >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! >> >> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net >> archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-18 1:48 ` Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-18 3:13 ` Rogers, Michael K 2012-07-19 1:37 ` Matthias Weber 2012-07-18 10:38 ` Khaled Hosny 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Rogers, Michael K @ 2012-07-18 3:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example. Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the &s: \let\oldstartalign=\startalign \let\oldstopalign=\stopalign \let\oldbs=\\ \def\startalign{\catcode`&=4\let\\=\cr\oldstartalign} \def\stopalign{\oldstopalign\catcode`&=12\let\\=\oldbs} \starttext This \& that & the other thing: \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula That \& this & yet another thing. \stoptext Hope that helps. Michael On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Matthias Weber wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE >>>> Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands >>>> tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com >>>> | www.pragma-pod.nl >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-18 3:13 ` Rogers, Michael K @ 2012-07-19 1:37 ` Matthias Weber 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Matthias Weber @ 2012-07-19 1:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Thanks. Now I have my own little sacrilege in the environment file. Matthias On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:13 PM, "Rogers, Michael K" <mroge02@emory.edu> wrote: > Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example. Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the &s: > > \let\oldstartalign=\startalign > \let\oldstopalign=\stopalign > \let\oldbs=\\ > \def\startalign{\catcode`&=4\let\\=\cr\oldstartalign} > \def\stopalign{\oldstopalign\catcode`&=12\let\\=\oldbs} > \starttext > This \& that & the other thing: > \startformula \startalign > v &= u + at \\ > h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ > \stopalign \stopformula > That \& this & yet another thing. > \stoptext > > Hope that helps. > > Michael > > On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Matthias Weber wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE >>>>> Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands >>>>> tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com >>>>> | www.pragma-pod.nl >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly > prohibited. > > If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the > original message (including attachments). > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Is startalign broken in mkiv? 2012-07-18 1:48 ` Matthias Weber 2012-07-18 3:13 ` Rogers, Michael K @ 2012-07-18 10:38 ` Khaled Hosny 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Khaled Hosny @ 2012-07-18 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:48:31PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: > It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used > according to your own pleasure. Except that is not the kind of thing ConTeXt users are supposed to mess with, I feel guilty every time I mess with catcodes in my style file. Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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