Re: next beta

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 6/13/2017 8:06 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2017, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> i.e. (poor mans) multiline display math
> 
> Interesting. An important reference for automatic breaking of multiline 
> display are the notes of Michael J Downes included in the documentation 
> of breqn: see section 14 (page 16) of 
> http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/breqn/breqn.pdf 

I remember a talk by giuseppe about nath (or so) that did something nice 
but anyway, the main question with that kind of trickery is if one is 
willing to add structure info or not .. anything semi-clever will be 
limited.

> (Ignore the implementation details, which were a series of hacks to make 
> things work in pdftex, but section 14 explains the different display 
> math layouts and a strategy to choose between them. It will be really 
> nice to have something comparable in ConTeXt.
You mean these boxed lines? I'm not a math expert so the subtle details 
are lost to me. I'd rather start from reasonable demands (after all very 
complex stuff often is best done manually anyway).

For instance

foo = bar + bar + bar
       gnu + gnu

is doable without much trouble if one is willing to enter

foo = \alignhere bar + bar + bar
       gnu + gnu

and such.

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