Re: Mathematics in ConTeXt?

[Emil Hedevang Lohse <emil@imf.au.dk>]

Taco <taco@elvenkind.com> writes:

> On 14 Sep 2002 21:05:53 +0200
> "Emil Hedevang Lohse" <emil@imf.au.dk> wrote:
> 
> > > > Personally I really like (most of) the functionallity of Nath, a
> > > > LaTeX package.
> 
> What does it do?

It makes typesetting beautiful mathematics really easy and is very
convenient to use.

1. There is no need to use \left and \right to make delimiters fit
   their content. (, ) and others automatically scale and they do so
   cleverly, not like \left and \right. 

2. Backping "`" can be used to typeset the following word in roman
   letters, that is, $`Mat_{n,m}$ or $`GL(n)$ can be used instead of
   $\Mat_{n,m}$ and $\GL(n)$ where I also have to make up a macro for
   every abbreviation.

3. Multiline subscripts are made by just typing a \\.

4. There is a \wall-\return construct that makes alignment nice too. 

5. Fractions are also handled cleverly.

Please take a look at 

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nath/nathguide.pdf

I don't consider Nath to be perfect, but it is indeed better than both
regular LaTeX and Plain TeX.

-- 
Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> 

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