From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68508 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How do I typeset two close vertical lines as in ||x||=1 ? Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 09:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305812101 11074 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2011 13:35:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 13:35:01 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 19 15:34:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QN3NK-0001ra-UQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FFBCAD17; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id fYGB8BikVDRo; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1063CAD11; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F7CCAD11 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id H-robLx7rVHF for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (filter3-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4F3CACFB for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter3-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p4JDYV7V032121 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:33 +0200 Original-Received: FROM adi-netbook (bas3-montreal02-1096681357.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.7.141]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4DD51C66.1015F.2593 ; Authuser adityam; 19 May 2011 09:34:30 EDT In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0dEJpyvTB - be2673d4e868 - 20110519 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68508 Archived-At: On Thu, 19 May 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 19.05.2011 um 13:04 schrieb Julian Becker: > >> I'm still having problems migrating from latex to context: >> In latex, I used to write e.g. $\| x \| = 1$, and get two vertical lines on each side of the x. In ConTeXt, the same "\|" is only producing one single vertical line. I tried using "||" and "\parallel", but in both cases the spacing is not as desired. Does anybody know how this is done properly? > > \starttext > $\Vert x \Vert = 1$ > \stoptext $\lVert x \rVert$ gives better spacing (even in LaTeX). Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________