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Subject: Re: LaTeX array equivalence with multiline \lbrace
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<--- On Jan 24, Renaud AUBIN wrote --->

> With LaTeX, I have
> $$
> \left\lbrace
> \begin{array}{l}
>   \dot{q}_i = 1 \quad\text{ if } i=k \\
>   \dot{q}_i = 0 \quad\text{ else}
> \end{array}
> \right
> $$

Well the ConTeXt way (rather the TeX way) of doing this is to use 
\cases.

$$
  \cases{
   \dot q_i = 1, & \text{ if } i = k \cr
   \dot q_i = 0, & \text{ else } \cr
  }
$$




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