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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Unescaped $ and & in texts
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:46:59 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0812171532290.23338@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EC7E9B1-D2B7-49B9-A39E-999EC76A8DCF@gmail.com>

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 :-)

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 20:04 Wolfgang Schuster
2008-12-17 20:46 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-12-17 21:08   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-12-17 21:42   ` Hans Hagen

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