Hi Alan, Wolfgang and Hans Åberg, As far as I am concerned, when I have to add a text to a math formula I use \mbox, as in the example \startformula A := \left\{f : {\Bbb R}^2 \longrightarrow {\Bbb R} \; ; \; f \mbox{ is measurable and } \int_{{\Bbb R}^2}|f(x)|dx < \infty \right\}. \stopformula The advantage being that if the above formula appears in an environment such as a Theorem (where the text is typeset in italic, or slanted) the text in the above \mbox will be also in italic or slanted. I don't think it would be a good idea to add new commands to treat text in a math formula: the existing possiblities are more than satisfactory, and moreover situations where one has to add text to a formula are not that common. So using a command like \mbox, or \text, or \mathtext, or whatever, is not that time consuming. Best regards: OK > On 8 Jul 2018, at 21:21, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > 1. The correct way to use \mathrm is {\mathrm ...} because it is a switch like \rm for text mode. > > 2. \mathrm is the wrong method to write text in formulas because the command changes only the math alphabet. This means no ligatures, kerning or other characters like umlauts. > > 3. The correct way to write text in math mode is \mathtext (which has the synonym \text) or \mathword. To change the style of the text you can use \mathtext{\it …} or \mathtextit{…}. > > Wolfgang >> Alan Braslau 7. Juli 2018 um 16:04 >> Hello ConTeXt users, >> >> Does it drive you crazy to see TeX users write $t = time$? >> (I see this all of the time by LaTeX users in Beamer presentations.) >> >> One can do better writing $t = {\rm time}$ (maybe) >> or in ConTeXt $t = \mathrm{time}$. >> Sometimes, too, I might write $t = \text{time}$. >> >> We also have the commands \mathematics{} that can be used in place of >> the TeX shorthand $...$, and this also has the shortcut \m{...}. >> >> I thought that it might be useful to have an equivalent escape, to be >> used as $t = \t{time}$. What do other users think? >> >> OK, \m{t = \t{time}} might be a bit funky... >> >> >> Alan >> >> >> P.S. I proposed doing this via >> \let\t\mathrm >> but Hans tells me that this is not good, as \mathrm{} does not give >> proper font processing, so implementation of \t{} would be something >> different... >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> 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://context.aanhet.net >> archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________