From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: mathfun
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 17:06:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f84c3bc1-c1fa-efb7-8fb3-ac4398312742@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2105211032550.1448551@nqv-guvaxcnq>
On 5/21/2021 4:37 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2021, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> I uploaded an lmtx update (only m-mathfun added).
>>
>> Attached a short description of this (windy stormy friday afternoon) math
>> experiment. The question is, what similar features using this trickery come to
>> mind.
>
> Personally, I can see occasionally making use of this instead of \ctxlua{myfunction(args)}. There is a similar library called pgfmath which is part of the tikz package, which is used quite heavily by the pgfplots package but also appears to be popular for other purposes:
>
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgfmath?tab=Votes
I guessed right that you would be the first to to react! Anyway, I
suppose that you come up with additional demands like:
\permanent\protected\def\randomized{\thewithproperty\plustwo}
so that we can do:
$ \sin(x) = \randomized\sin{2pi} $
which i'm sure you can figure out by looking at the source.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-21 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-21 13:15 mathfun Hans Hagen
2021-05-21 14:37 ` mathfun Aditya Mahajan
2021-05-21 15:06 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2021-05-21 15:24 ` mathfun Otared Kavian
2021-05-21 16:07 ` mathfun Hans Hagen
2021-05-21 20:41 ` mathfun Aditya Mahajan
2021-05-21 21:01 ` mathfun Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-22 6:51 ` mathfun Hans Hagen
2021-05-22 21:34 ` mathfun Jairo A. del Rio
2021-05-23 9:51 ` mathfun Hans Hagen
2021-05-23 13:45 ` mathfun Jairo A. del Rio
2021-05-23 14:35 ` mathfun Hans Hagen
2021-05-23 15:33 ` mathfun Jairo A. del Rio
2021-05-23 21:29 ` mathfun Hans Hagen
2021-05-23 14:40 ` mathfun Hans Hagen
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