From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Using \startalign outside of math mode?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:31:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0908281028400.32414@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090828112910.GY12901@katherina.student.utwente.nl>
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a custom pretty printer to apply some formatting to a buffer.
> However, I'm not using a monospaced font, but some sans serif font to display
> the result. In the original text, I have some lines that are nicely aligned
> using leading spaces. For example:
>
> foo = bar
> | baz
>
> Obviously, when using a non monospaced font for this, the alignment is lost.
> When in math mode, I can use \startalign to force alignment, like:
>
> \startalign
> foo \NC= bar
> \NC| baz
> \stopalgin
>
> However, I haven't manage to switch to math mode inside pretty printed text.
> Also, even if I would, I would get my text rendered in math mode, which
> probably won't work.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there is anything like \startalign to use outside of math
> mode? I've been looking at the implementation of \startalign, but couldn't
> find it...
Startalign is essentially a table with some predefined defaults. You can
try something like (untested)
\starttable[|rs(0.2em)|cs(0.2em)|l|]
\NC foo \NC = \NC bar \NC \AR
\NC \NC | \NC baz \NC \AR
\stoptable
Aditya
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2009-08-28 11:29 Matthijs Kooijman
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