I am wondering likewise. Sander Maijers On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Rik wrote: > On 2014-10-15 17:06, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> Am 15.10.2014 um 21:03 schrieb Rik Kabel : >> >> I am not sure I understand the need for symstyle and symcolor. The issue >>> is not that the symbols are not styled/colored, but that they do not appear >>> at all when a non-normal style is specified. What I see with the example I >>> posted is: >>> >>> and I assume that Sander saw a similar issue. >>> >>> Note that there are no square brackets present as defined for layer 2. >>> >>> I realize that style=normal for level 3 should perhaps be style=\tf, >>> since normal is redefined to slanted within the scope of layer 2. With that >>> change to my example, I get >>> >>> This still has the lack of square brackets, and now in addition lacks >>> curly braces for level 3. >>> >>> If your fix is meant to repair that, all is well. If not, could you >>> explain why “it's deliberate and has always been the case in mkiv”? >>> >> When you use “location=text” context checks the value of the style key, >> when the value of the key is “normal” >> the left and right arguments are used but when you use a different value >> (e.g. slanted) context applies only >> the style and color values. >> >> > Thank you, Wolfgang, for that explanation of what is being done. > > Can you explain why this is done? It would seem, given the name of the > command, that the delimiter is more important than the styling, and so I > suspect that there is some historical reason that this behavior was chosen. > Styling can be done within the text, as can delimiters, but the benefit of > the command is that it should be able to manage multiple levels > automatically. > > -- > Rik Kabel > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________________ > 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 > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________________