Re: Reg. fonts and math

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
>> 2. The tutorial tells us to refer to other sources (The TeX Book) for
>>   more on Math typesetting. Is there any online resource which would
>>   explain TeX (as opposed to LaTeX) math?
>> 
> most math (also in latex) is tex math, macro packages add additional symbols 
> (context has them), some matrix stuff (is available in math modules) and font 
> handling (depends on font system used)

Most math in latex is *not* same as tex math. Though, most that can be 
done with latex can also be done in tex, but latex does provide a nice 
interface which sadly is missing in context. amsl and nath modules provide 
some of this functionality but a lot still needs to be done to make 
Context math handling as easy as it is in Latex.

Having said that, the most commonly used math functionality of 
latex+amsmath is available in context. Unfortunately it is not well 
documented. You need to read some latex amsmath tutorial to get familiar 
with the syntax, then you can simply replace \begin{...} \end{...} pairs 
with \start .... \stop pairs and the basic features will work.

> the best resource is still "the tex book"

What is the development status of amsl and nath modules?

Aditya