From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Unescaped $ and & in texts
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:08:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FBC1BFCD-E904-4188-89A5-2098F9FBE3B6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0812171532290.23338@nqv-yncgbc>
Am 17.12.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text
>> without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed
>> to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used.
>
> Also add # to the list. Basically, we can just define a catcode
> regime where only \ { and } are special. Inside math mode (activated
> by \formula, \math, \mathematics, or \startformula) we can switch to
> a catcode regime where _ and ^ are also set to appropriate catcodes.
> I would go as far as to say that we should make this default, but I
> don't think everyone will like that. So, for me a
> \justwritenaturally macro will do :-)
I wasn't sure if I should add # to the list bit it makes sense.
\nonknuthmode takes care to tread _ and ^ as subscript and superscript
in math mode and as normal chars in text mode.
Wolfgang
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2008-12-17 20:04 Wolfgang Schuster
2008-12-17 20:46 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-12-17 21:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-12-17 21:42 ` Hans Hagen
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