From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to create a breakable text box inside math equation?
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 22:33:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97768DA2-07B4-4E0C-A0B9-F870161E85ED@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimfNr=2=-QVUUTU8B_sXQRcSd7JwA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 06.05.2011 um 16:50 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> Hello,
>
> This is probably a very trivial question, but I'm not sure how TeX
> works in that respect. I'm used to use a macro
> \def\unit#1{{\rm\ #1}
> in constructs such as $1\unit{cm^2} \times 2\unit{cm}$. However I
> figured out that the contents of \unit{} cannot be broken accross
> lines, most probably because this becomes an hbox.
>
> Is there any simple workaround?
\def\unit{\groupedcommand{\rm\ }{}}
or
\def\unit#1{\bgroup\rm\ #1\egroup}
{ and } are same as \begingroup and \endgroup in math mode and prevent and a line break of the content.
Wolfgang
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2011-05-06 14:50 Mojca Miklavec
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2011-05-10 17:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
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