From: "Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mickep@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior in math mode: < and minus sign give leftarrow
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:40:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHy-LL-J2iv_jTLv87U5xA8dJRj_OGSPgqZhW0eo8NjodnQ0Vg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6184EE48-2A2F-4C6A-BD78-1919E1E94A23@gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:21 AM Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> While testing old documents with lmtx, I noticed that with recent versions of mkiv, as well as LuaMetaTeX, there is a strange behavior in math mode: when the characters < and - follow each other one gets \leftarrow… This is embarrassing when one writes inequalities for negative numbers.
> So one has to separate them in order to obtain with curly braces. Can this be fixed or is it intended ?
>
> \starttext
> $\alpha < -1$
>
> $\alpha \leftarrow 1$
>
> $\alpha < {-1}$
>
> $\alpha {<} - 1$
> \stoptext
>
> Best regards: OK
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Hi!
I asked about this before, and it is a feature.
It can be switched off with
\setupmathematics[
collapsing=1,
]
Hope it helps!
/Mikael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-10 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 7:21 Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 7:40 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist [this message]
2019-04-10 7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 8:09 ` Otared Kavian
2019-04-10 14:41 ` Alan Braslau
2019-04-10 12:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2019-04-10 21:01 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-10 7:57 ` Otared Kavian
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