Re: parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table

["Brian R. Landy" <brian@landy.cx>]

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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