Wrong. The imperial measurement system, may give Europeans a headache, but is NOT obsolete, by any means. A good chunk of the world use the imperial measurment system and may be required in certain books, depending on a country's standards.
dh --------- Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, great work, thank you! (While I keep working with WebCMS and avoid > math...) > > And I guess you forgot to mention that you discontinued the support > for non-metric measures like the obsolete inch, except Potrzebie, of > course. > > Hraban > > Am 01.04.22 um 10:02 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: > > Hi, > > As most of you know by now, Mikael and I are working on a math > > support upgrade. In order to let users keep up we uploaded a new > > version. We have been revisioning some of the more obscure > > constructs where we have no clue of usage, like pmod, bmod, > > bordermatrix etc, commands that we took (and reimplemented) > > decades ago from plain TeX or AMS TeX, assuming that these are > > standards. > > In this release, encouraged by the positive response we received > > from users regarding the new simplealignment construction, and in > > particular regarding the self-explaining sesac, we have decided to > > introduced some new constructs. First out is > > \startformula > > \startxıɹʇɐɯ > > \NC a_1 \NC b_1 \NC c_1 \NR > > \NC a_2 \NC b_2 \NC c_2 \NR > > \NC a_3 \NC b_3 \NC c_3 \NR > > \stopxıɹʇɐɯ > > \stopformula > > for rotation matrices. This was demanded for some advanced math > > courses that Mikael teaches. It might inspire users to come up with > > demands that suits their own obscure but nevertheless interesting > > math. > > At some point we realized that, with (also) scientific publishers > > (of math journals) moving to MS Word and Indesign, we operate in a > > rather peculiar niche and the fact that we use an upgraded and more > > granular math engine, made us wonder how to communicate all these > > new features and standards that we set. It is for that reason that > > from now on we will operate under the CMS umbrella. That > > abbreviation stands for ConTeXt Math Society. It has no funny swirly > > TeX logo which itself is a statement: in Unicode math script and > > calligraphic alphabets are so messed up that it is impossible to > > have a reliable and predictable rendering. We go for Dutch and > > Swedish simplicity in the spirit of W.N. Lansburgh: back to the > > times before TeX was written (1964). There will be no limits and > > boundaries set. (Talking math limits and boundaries: these can > > already go everywhere anyway, as can fences.) > > So, when we mention CMS, we mean serious math business, but > > kindergarten math is also embraced! There are no consequences for > > users: ConTeXt users with a proven math track record are > > automatically a member, but we are not too picky, everyone is > > welcome. We don't have honorary members but Taco (the first ConTeXt > > math user) and Aditya (the most experienced one) might consider > > themselves as such. Mikael Sundqvist is the chairman, which is a > > livelong appointment. (A nice side effect is that with Arthur living > > in Sweden too, that gives us a very strong position in the TeX > > landscape there.) > > So, today's upload is sort of special: welcome CMS (ConTeXt Math > > Shines), goodbye AMS (American Math Second). Of course we're open > > for suggestions and it being an open society all voices will be > > heard, but only proper (retro) math cf Lansburgh will be honored. Of > > course we only listen to ConTeXt users and, as that package is not > > supposed to be used for serious math, we don't bother about the few > > publishers left that still do math. > > Are we done? Not yet. We're in the middle of (colorful and graphic) > > alignment ornaments and after that we're going to expand and improve > > multi-line display formulas and equation numbering. > > It will be no coincidence that the cover of Landburghs book about > > math typesetting has a prominent 'AWE' embedded in a logo with a > > lion on top: we hope all users are in awe about what the TeX lion > > can do. > > Mikael S & Hans H > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
