Re: framed getbuffer

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 2007/4/11, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>> 
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> 
>> > Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
>> >> Hallo!
>> >>
>> >> The following simple example doesn't compile
>> >> (ConTeXt ver. 2007.01.02 and Live ConTeXt).
>> >>
>> >> What am I doing wrong?
>> >
>> > Diagnostics:
>> >
>> > The problem is not caused by the \framed, but by the (lack of)
>> > parsing done by the buffering routines.
>> > Because the \startformula is not expanded, TeX does not realise
>> > you are in math mode, so it objects to the ^ character.
>> >
>> >
>> > This is 'not right' but I suspect it is not all that simple
>> > to fix the context core to do this properly (I would love to be
>> > proved wrong).
>> 
>> This is a serious bug. Even a simple example fails with the same
>> error.
>> 
>> \starttext
>> \framed{
>> \startformula
>> x^2 = x\cdot x
>> \stopformula}
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> A quick workaround is to use frametext instead of framed, but I am
>> pretty sure that the above example used to work at some stage.
>> 
>> Aditya
>
>
> Hi Aditya,
>
> it is more a problem related to horizontal and vertical modes/boxes, you can
> test it by placing \startformula .. \startformula into a hbox/vbox and only
> the
> vbox solution works.

Ah! Thanks for the explanation.

Aditya