Re: abbreviations as macros (Aditya Mahajan)

Re: abbreviations as macros (Aditya Mahajan)

[Armin Varmaz]

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>Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:10:21 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Aditya Mahajan [
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>Subject: Re: [NTG-context] abbreviations as macros
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>On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, ivo welch wrote:
>
>
>If you never need to use a full form of the abbreviation, then you can 
>just use the same in ConTeXt. The equivalent of \ensuremath is \math; 
>everything else is the same.
>
>\define\NPV{\text{NPV\math{_0}}
>
>I would, however, write this slightly differently (even in LaTeX) as
>
>\math{\text{NPV}_0}
>
>but that is just a stylistic issue.
>
>> Is there a recommended way to do this on conTeXt?
>
>The usual way of defining abbreviations in ConTeXt is
>
>\abbreviation [NPV] {\math{\text{NPV}_0}} {full form}
>
>Then you can use
>
>\NPV\ for a short form of the abbreviation and \infull{NPV} for the full 
>form. The advantage is that you can also get a list of used abbreviations.
>
>
>Aditya

Hi Aditya,

can you tell me how I can ensure as in AMSmath that the font size in abbreviations automatically match the font size of current text?  see my example below. 

Best Armin

******** EXAMPLE

\definealternativestyle[ImportantStyle][{\definedfont[Kurier-Bold at 24pt]}]


\definetextbackground[zhu]
 [location=paragraph,
 background=color,backgroundcolor=orange,
 leftoffset=0.5\bodyfontsize,rightoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,
 topoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,bottomoffset=.5\bodyfontsize,
 style=ImportantStyle,
 frame=off]


\startsetups important:start
 \starttextbackground[zhu] 
\stopsetups


\startsetups important:stop
 \endgraf
 \stoptextbackground
\stopsetups


\definestartstop
 [important]
 [before=\setups{important:start},
 after=\setups{important:stop}]

\abbreviation [NPV] {\math{\text{NPV}}} {full form} 

\starttext

this looks normal $x$, \NPV.

\startimportant
this looks bad \mathematics{x}, \NPV.
\stopimportant

this looks normal $x$, \NPV.

\stoptext

******** END EXAMPLE
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Re: abbreviations as macros (Aditya Mahajan)

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Armin Varmaz wrote:

> Hi Aditya,
>
> can you tell me how I can ensure as in AMSmath that the font size in 
> abbreviations automatically match the font size of current text?  see my 
> example below.
>
> Best Armin
>
> ******** EXAMPLE

Shorter example showing what goes wrong:

\definealternativestyle[ImportantStyle]
                        [{\definedfont[Kurier-Bold at 24pt]}]

\defineframedtext[important][style=ImportantStyle]

\starttext
\startimportant
   Math $x$ does not scale
\stopimportant
\stoptext

The reason is that you only specified how to scale text. To get the right 
math scaling you have to use \switchtobodyfont. You can go about it in two 
ways

\defineframedtext[important][style={\switchtobodyfont[24pt]\ImportantStyle}]

(which will scale the math font, but not change it to Kurier-Bold).

Or you can define a typescript for kurier-bold (see type-otf for 
examples), and then use

\usetypescript[kurier-bold]

\defineframedtext[important][style={\switchtobodyfont[kurier-bold,24pt]}]

Aditya
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