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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: problem with math: "\left" leads to "udefined symbol"
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:15:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9301b12-0f26-2e58-0b6f-1fc968609ed9@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.yukfl8ekkcdbg5@muck.fritz.box>

On 1/24/2017 11:33 AM, j. van den hoff wrote:
> hi everybody,
>
> after a 2 year hiatus I'm just giving `context' a second try (so, really
> not much experience so far).
>
> I updated to the latest version (0.63) before proceeding.

0.63 what? luatex? then you need to check things as we're beyond 1.00 now

> two observations:
>
> 1.
> in a new document including assorted equations everything went fine
> until I tried something like
>
> \startformula
> x = \left 1 + 2 \right
> \stopformula

\left( ... \right)

left and right take an argument that has to be some known open or close 
operator

> which caused an error:
>
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------------
>  ! Undefined control sequence
>
>
> \strc_synonyms_insert_meaning ...urrentsynonymtag
>                                                   {#2}\fastsetup
> {\??simplel...
> \math_left ...ame \??mathleft \meaning \nexttoken
>                                                   \endcsname
> \expandafter \l...
> l.472 x = \left (
>                 1 + 2 \right )
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 2.
> an old document (not modified these 2 years) does no longer compile due
> to apparently the same problem (not understanding `\left', `\right'.
>
> question: my understanding is, that `context' supports "everything" out
> of the box (notably equations) and there is no need for explicit loading
> of additional packages? so `\left' etc. _should be defined (and it
> _used_ to work 2 years ago)? what am I missing?
>
> thx, joerg
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 10:33 j. van den hoff
2017-01-24 13:15 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-01-24 13:33   ` j. van den hoff
2017-01-24 14:02     ` Hans Hagen
2017-01-24 14:15       ` luigi scarso
2017-01-24 14:54         ` j. van den hoff
2017-01-24 15:02       ` Roger Mason
2017-01-24 15:47       ` problem with math: "\left" leads to "udefined symbol" --solved (sort of) j. van den hoff
2017-01-24 16:34         ` Hans Hagen

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