Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX maths with array...

2008-04-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Pau wrote:

 Hi,

 I am preparing an e-journal for astro and I have many articles with
 lots of equations. Unfortunately, authors are using LaTeX maths and
 this is giving me trouble.

 I have read and followed the steps of

 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LaTeX_Math_in_ConTeXt

 and

 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_with_newmat

 and it has helped me a lot but there's a snag I run all the time in: array

 Typically, the equation giving troubles is of the kind:

 \begin{equation}
 \begin{array}{rl}
 h  \sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r\\
   \sim M_{ch}^{5/3}f^{2/3}/r\\
 \end{array}
 \end{equation}

The correct way to translate array in ConTeXt is

\startformula
  \startmatrix[align={right,left}]
\NC h \NC \sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r \NR
\NC   \NC \sim M_{ch}^{5/3} f^{2/3}/r \NR
\stopmatrix
\stopformula

However, I think that the original input is wrong. The autor probably 
wanted to use split (or align), rather than array.


 when I try to compile, I get

 ! Misplaced alignment tab character .
 l.484 h
\sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r\\

 Of course, when I use

 \startformula\eqalign{
 h  \sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r   \cr
   \sim M_{ch}^{5/3}f^{2/3}/r  \cr
 }\stopformula


 everything runs smoothly but I cannot convert all equations containing
 a {array}{rl} or similar, because I would never end... I guess that
 writing a script to convert them in eqlign would be feasible, but it's
 a very... precarious way... I would prefer to fix the problem from
 ConTeXt itself...

 how??

Do you want ConTeXt to parse \begin{array}{...} ... \end{array} and 
typeset it? This is possible, but essentially involves rewritting array in 
ConTeXt, without any of the configuration options that ConTeXt provides.

The (now deprecated) amsl module provided something similar to LaTeX 
array. Have you tried using that part of the code?

Aditya
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Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX maths with array...

2008-04-19 Thread Pau
Thanks for the answer.

 The (now deprecated) amsl module provided something similar to LaTeX array. 
 Have you  tried using that part of the code?

yes, I followed exactly the steps of the wiki...

For now the only way of fixing this was to rewrite the arrays per
hand. But LaTeX compiles them, so that I don't think this was an error
from the author

... anyway...



2008/4/19, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Pau wrote:


  Hi,
 
  I am preparing an e-journal for astro and I have many articles with
  lots of equations. Unfortunately, authors are using LaTeX maths and
  this is giving me trouble.
 
  I have read and followed the steps of
 
  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LaTeX_Math_in_ConTeXt
 
  and
 
  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_with_newmat
 
  and it has helped me a lot but there's a snag I run all the time in: array
 
  Typically, the equation giving troubles is of the kind:
 
  \begin{equation}
  \begin{array}{rl}
  h  \sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r\\
\sim M_{ch}^{5/3}f^{2/3}/r\\
  \end{array}
  \end{equation}
 

  The correct way to translate array in ConTeXt is

  \startformula
   \startmatrix[align={right,left}]
\NC h \NC \sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r \NR
\NC   \NC \sim M_{ch}^{5/3} f^{2/3}/r \NR
  \stopmatrix
  \stopformula

  However, I think that the original input is wrong. The autor probably
 wanted to use split (or align), rather than array.



  when I try to compile, I get
 
  ! Misplaced alignment tab character .
  l.484 h
\sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r\\
 
  Of course, when I use
 
  \startformula\eqalign{
  h  \sim \mu M^{2/3}f^{2/3}/r   \cr
\sim M_{ch}^{5/3}f^{2/3}/r  \cr
  }\stopformula
 
 
  everything runs smoothly but I cannot convert all equations containing
  a {array}{rl} or similar, because I would never end... I guess that
  writing a script to convert them in eqlign would be feasible, but it's
  a very... precarious way... I would prefer to fix the problem from
  ConTeXt itself...
 
  how??
 

  Do you want ConTeXt to parse \begin{array}{...} ... \end{array} and typeset
 it? This is possible, but essentially involves rewritting array in ConTeXt,
 without any of the configuration options that ConTeXt provides.

  The (now deprecated) amsl module provided something similar to LaTeX array.
 Have you tried using that part of the code?

  Aditya

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