From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>,
Jack Hill <jackhill3103@gmail.com>,
Taco Hoekwater <taco@bittext.nl>
Subject: Re: Nested $$ in inline math
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:48:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7b7dbaf-4004-90b9-6492-fdb70f1032a1@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9421B6E2-879C-4195-827C-3CDB8D315FD5@bittext.nl>
On 12/13/2021 4:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context wrote:
>
>
>> On 13 Dec 2021, at 16:15, Jack Hill via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I was playing around and found that nesting $$s inside of \m blocks typesets the code as text.
>> I can't find anything about this on the wiki or in the math-mkiv manual, so I'm asking whether this is supported behaviour or just a bug?
>
> I would say that this is unsupported expected behaviour ;)
>
> It is better not to use $ at all (except when using it as a dollar sign when \asciimode is active).
>
>>
>> \starttext
>> % All the same
>> \mathematics{math $text here$ math} \\
>> \math{math $text here$ math} \\
>> \m{math $text here$ math} \\
>> \m{math \text{text here} math} \\
>
> A bit over-precise maybe, but while the first three are the same, the last line is
> actually very subtly different.
>
> The first three lines are essentially this in TeX82 :
>
> $math $text here$ math\hfill\break
>
> while that last line is
>
> $math \hbox{text here} math\hfill\break
which indeed makes
\starttext
\mathematics{$text$}
\stoptext
a puzzle
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-13 15:15 Jack Hill via ntg-context
2021-12-13 15:35 ` Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context
2021-12-13 16:48 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-12-13 17:57 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-12-13 19:07 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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