just realized: is it perhaps that in the first case, the square brackets are interpreted as a list of parameters to \startformula?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/12 Julian Becker <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:becker.julian@gmail.com">becker.julian@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I just found out that I cannot (with MkIV on Windows XP, ConTeXt  ver. 2011.02.09 16:42) compile the following<br clear="all">
</div><div><br></div><div>\starttext</div><div>
This formula produces an error:<br>\startformula<br>[r_{\rm test}]=a<br>\stopformula<br>\stoptext<br></div><div>\starttext <br>However, this works:<br>\startformula<br>a=[r_{\rm test}]<br>\stopformula<br><br>What&#39;s going on here? Using \mathrm instead of \rm in the subscript is compiling without complaint, but produces the wrong output.<br>

</div><div><br></div><div>Julian</div>
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