From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: math: command for absolute value: `\define\abs[1]{\lvert #1 \rvert}` throws `\lvert ->\Udelimiter`.
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:51:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y61hl3qa.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307220033.4456.44.camel@mattotaupa> (Paul Menzel's message of "Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:40:33 +0200")
On Sat, Jun 04 2011, Paul Menzel wrote:
> I want to define `\abs` as the command for the absolute value. The
> following minimal example is also attached.
>
> \define\abs[1]{\lvert #1 \rvert}
Don't ask me why "\define" doesn't work (certainly related to
expansion), but "\def" does the job:
\def\abs#1{\lvert #1 \rvert}
--
Peter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-04 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-04 20:40 Paul Menzel
2011-06-04 20:51 ` Peter Münster [this message]
2011-06-04 21:59 ` Otared Kavian
2011-06-05 10:11 ` \define[1]\command or \define\command[1]? (was: math: command for absolute value: `\define\abs[1]{\lvert #1 \rvert}` throws `\lvert ->\Udelimiter`.) Paul Menzel
2011-06-05 10:15 ` [solved] " Paul Menzel
2011-06-05 10:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-29 2:37 ` Repeated Hyphens in URL Cause Fatal Error Raymond LeClair
2011-06-29 5:34 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-29 11:27 ` Netiquette (was: Repeated Hyphens in URL Cause Fatal Error) Paul Menzel
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