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* parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table
@ 2010-07-09 20:12 Brian R. Landy
  2010-07-12 12:56 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Brian R. Landy @ 2010-07-09 20:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it 
contains inline math and an alignment character is used.  Here's a small 
example which triggers the problem:

\starttext<
\bTABLE<
\bTABLEbody<
\bTR<
\bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD<
\eTR<
\eTABLEbody<
\eTABLE<
\stoptext<

However, if I replace \math{-} with $-$, the file works.  Am I correct 
that $-$ and \math{-} should be interchangeable?

Thanks,
Brian
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* Re: parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table
  2010-07-09 20:12 parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table Brian R. Landy
@ 2010-07-12 12:56 ` Hans Hagen
  2010-07-12 21:33   ` Brian R. Landy
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2010-07-12 12:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mailing list for ConTeXt users; +Cc: Brian R. Landy

On 9-7-2010 10:12, Brian R. Landy wrote:
> Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it
> contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small
> example which triggers the problem:
>
> \starttext<
> \bTABLE<
> \bTABLEbody<
> \bTR<
> \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD<
> \eTR<
> \eTABLEbody<
> \eTABLE<
> \stoptext<
>
> However, if I replace \math{-} with $-$, the file works. Am I correct
> that $-$ and \math{-} should be interchangeable?

side effect of alignmentcharacter that triggers expansion of cell 
content, so just use $ here

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* Re: parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table
  2010-07-12 12:56 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2010-07-12 21:33   ` Brian R. Landy
  2010-07-12 22:05     ` Aditya Mahajan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Brian R. Landy @ 2010-07-12 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mailing list for ConTeXt users

Thanks for the reply.  I'm actually generating TeX from an application 
that interprets $ in it's own code and occasionally this causes me 
trouble in passing the $ through to TeX to use in math mode (I think 
they have a bug and am hoping I can get that fixed).  So I tend to use 
\math{}  to avoid complications with escaping $, but was stuck in this 
case because I couldn't use $ or \math{}.

Anyway, I just now solved my problem in the other application and am 
able pass through $ appropriately so it's no longer an issue for me.

Thanks,
Brian

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 9-7-2010 10:12, Brian R. Landy wrote:
>> Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it
>> contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a 
>> small
>> example which triggers the problem:
>> 
>> \starttext<
>> \bTABLE<
>> \bTABLEbody<
>> \bTR<
>> \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD<
>> \eTR<
>> \eTABLEbody<
>> \eTABLE<
>> \stoptext<
>> 
>> However, if I replace \math{-} with $-$, the file works. Am I correct
>> that $-$ and \math{-} should be interchangeable?
>
> side effect of alignmentcharacter that triggers expansion of cell 
> content, so just use $ here
>
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* Re: parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table
  2010-07-12 21:33   ` Brian R. Landy
@ 2010-07-12 22:05     ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2010-07-12 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Brian R. Landy wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  I'm actually generating TeX from an application that 
> interprets $ in it's own code and occasionally this causes me trouble in 
> passing the $ through to TeX to use in math mode (I think they have a bug and 
> am hoping I can get that fixed).  So I tend to use \math{}  to avoid 
> complications with escaping $, but was stuck in this case because I couldn't 
> use $ or \math{}.

With expansion problems, sometimes using \noexpand\math{...} works.

Aditya
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