At 04:23 PM 9/14/2002 +0200, Emil Hedevang Lohse wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I would like to know if there has been made any progress in making a
>math module for ConTeXt, or is it still just the math of Plain TeX?
i'm in the process of cleaning up the math module cq. moving a couple of
things to the kernel (for the moment in m-newmat); the breqn stuff is not
always wanted so that will remain in a separate math module (that's taco's
speciality).
Actually, there is not that much special math needed. When someone misses
something: provide me an example, + the corresponding tex/latex/ams code
and I will contextify it.
Also, in context there are thing slike: user defined math environments,
each with their own justification and margins, spacing, etc
>Personally I really like (most of) the functionallity of Nath, a LaTeX
>package.
I remember the talk, sounded like an ok and nice package to me, but the
author told me that he has no plans to make it generic
I just took a quick look at the file:
defines a couple of ifs
does quite some catcode changes
defines local macros with potential conflicting names
a bit of fontdimen trickery
everymath nilling
dollar trickery
isolated equation number handling
hardcoded dimensions
redefinitions of low level (math) macros
redefines quads to fixed measures (sic)
always frenchspacing
so i would probably have to reimplement most of it from scratch ; i also
wonder how the code cooperates with latex and many styles (for instance
font settings followed by loading nath versus reverse order)
maybe some day ...
Hans
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