Thank you very much - I think the problem was with a LaTeX= "align" environment which pandoc translated into a setting which= =C2=A0 ConTeXt didn't recognize.=C2=A0 These equations were monsters, s= o I'll try with simpler equations to give you an idea.=C2=A0 But in fac= t what you say makes perfect sense, and I'll go back and read through= =C2=A0the mathematics document again, and more closely this time!

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(For matrices and arrays I still prefer the neat LaTeX implementa= tion, but maybe that's simply my general unfamiliarity with ConTeXt.)= =C2=A0 Thanks again!

Alasdair

On Mon, Jun 29,= 2020 at 2:27 AM Aditya Mahajan <ad= ityam@umich.edu> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:

> I tried ConTeXt a few years ago, then gave up on it because of its
> wordiness and verbosity.=C2=A0 The 2006 article on creating AMSTeX out= put in
> ConTeXt at https://www.ntg.nl/maps/34/06.pdf shows exactly= what I mean: the
> LaTeX commands are small and neat; the ConTeXt commands are not.

As explained in the last paragraph, there are pre-built shortcuts for the m= ain alignments and you can define your own to match amsmath style, if you w= ish.

If you are worried about typing, look into tab completion for your editor o= f choice. For example, in vim, I can do `for<Tab>` which expands to `= \startformula ... \stopformula` and `fora<Tab>` expands to `\startfor= mula \startalign ... \stopalign \stopformula`.

> However, I need now to use ConTeXt for accessibility tagging, so I'= ;m
> prepared to give it another try.=C2=A0 And this means converting some = LaTeX
> documents into ConTeXt.=C2=A0 Is there a better way than using pandoc?= =C2=A0 I ran a
> LaTeX document through pandoc, but the result is certainly not fully > "ConTeXt compliant", and generates errors instead of compili= ng.

AFAIK, pandoc is not aware of context math. When I convert latex to context= , I find it simpler to do it some hand written regex which translate comman= ds according to my writing style.

> I can get easily lost on the ConTeXt site: the documentation is there = in
> plenty, but seems hard to search.=C2=A0 The main problem for me is mat= hematics
> and alignment: not just for equations, but for matrices and arrays.=C2= =A0 What
> I'd love - if it exists - is a document showing how to rewrite LaT= eX into
> ConTeXt.=C2=A0 Something like the above document, which is now 14 year= s old.

The user-interface is still the same.

> Anyway, as I say, my main issues are converting LaTeX into ConTeXt. an= d
> dealing with mathematics.=C2=A0 Any pointers would be gratefully recei= ved!

Can you post an example of LaTeX math that you are having difficulty in con= verting? It is hard to answer this in the abstract.

Aditya
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