From: Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Simple command with variable number of arguments
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 07:14:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D50970F3-4B1B-45CB-B8EE-03811E819E49@indiana.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1405230650470.30428@nqv-guvaxcnq>
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Thanks Aditya,
but out of the box the following
\usemodule[simplematrix]
\definesimplematrix[MATRIX][fence=bracket]
\starttext
\startformula
\MATRIX{1,2,3}
\MATRIX{1;2;3}
\stopformula
\stoptext
gives me
Matthias
On May 23, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I would like to define a command that expands
>>
>> \vector{2,4} % or vector[2,4] if that’s easier
>>
>> to
>>
>> \startpmatrix
>> \NC 2 \NR
>> \NC 4 \NR
>> \stoppmatrix
>>
>> and more generally
>>
>> \vector{2,4,1,7}
>>
>> to
>>
>> \startpmatrix
>> \NC 2 \NR
>> \NC 4 \NR
>> \NC 1 \NR
>> \NC 7 \NR
>> \stoppmatrix
>>
>> Any hints how to achieve this?
>
> Surprisingly, this is not as simple as it may seem at first glance. Some time ago, I had written a module to achieve this. See attached. The usage is:
>
> \usemodule[simplematrix]
>
> \definesimplematrix[MATRIX][fence=bracket]
>
> (any predefined math-fence will work) and then:
>
> \MATRIX{1,2,3} for row vectors and \MATRIX{1;2;3} for column vectors, and \MATRIX{1,2,3; 4,5,6} for matrices.
>
> You can use \definesimplematrix[...][distance=..., align=...] to influence the distance and align keys of mathmatrix.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-23 9:54 Matthias Weber
2014-05-23 10:08 ` Otared Kavian
2014-05-23 10:55 ` Matthias Weber
2014-05-23 10:56 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-05-23 11:14 ` Matthias Weber [this message]
2014-05-23 11:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-05-23 12:08 ` Matthias Weber
2014-05-23 11:44 ` luigi scarso
2014-05-23 12:12 ` Matthias Weber
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2014-05-23 13:48 ` Jeong Dal
2014-05-23 18:00 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <537FA66D.3000608@wxs.nl>
2014-05-24 0:36 ` Jeong Dal
2014-05-24 6:55 ` Jeong Dal
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