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From: Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: analog of \hdotsfor command
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:24:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikr9TwzWXGo+kC8Xu+ivqUJZ1nFXcLgRakCsTiN@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1011231210050.13592@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

Hi.

2010/11/24 Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Is there analog of \hdotsfor command in context (mkiv)?
>>
>> The description of \hdotsfor command is in amsldoc.pdf[1] on page 11.
>>
>> [1] http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/amslatex/math/amsldoc.pdf
>
> I don't think there is an equivalent context macro. But hdotsfor should just
> be a combination of \span\omit + \hdotfill.
The command \hdotfill is not defined (in TeX Live 2010 context with
updates from tlcontrib.metatex.org and in context minimal).

> So, just copying the definition
> from amsmath.sty should work.
I looked into this definition and think that it uses some LaTeX
commands. I could convert it to context but I'd like to have test
files, so not right now.
> We need to think of a good syntax for matrices in ConTeXt to handle such
> things.
Command \start/stopmatrix is good enough, but you mean matrix as
visual representation.

---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-23 16:25 Vladimir Lomov
2010-11-23 17:11 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-11-26  5:24   ` Vladimir Lomov [this message]

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