On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Bruce H. Wagner wrote:
> At 10:21 PM -0700 7/14/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, David Arnold wrote:
>>
>>> On another matter, I'm having some alignment issues. Consider the
>>> following code:
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \startformula
>>> \startalign[n=4,{left, middle, middle, middle}]
>>> aaa&b&cccc&d\\
>>> a&bbb&c&ddd
>>> \stopalign
>>> \stopformula
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>> > Compile this and you will notice that the alignment parameters {left,
>> > middle, middle, middle} are ignored. And you can change these to
>>> anything else (left, middle, right), with absolutely no change. Any
>>> idea what is going on here?
>>
>> Wrong syntax. It should be
>>
>> \startalign[n=4,align={left,....}]
>>
>> I would strongly suggest to use
>>
>> \NC aaaa \NC bb \NC d \NR
>>
>> instead of "raw" & and \\.
>>
>>
>> Aditya
>
>
> The "align=" seems to make no difference. In fact, I had tried including it
> before.
>
> Also, I'm finding that the {left,middle, middle, middle} parameters are still
> ignored when using the Context syntax \NC \NR, as in:
>
> \startformula
> \startalign[n=4,align={left, middle, middle, middle}]
> \NC aaa\NC b\NC cccc\NC d\NR
> \NC a\NC bbb\NC c\NC ddd\NR
> \stopalign
> \stopformula
Strange. This works perfectly here.
> Interestingly enough, the alignment is slightly different than I get when
> using the LaTeX syntax, but I still can't get alignment to work correctly.
Can you send me your context file and pdf offlist?
> Incidentally, the reason I am using the LaTeX syntax is that we are
> translating LaTeX code into Context automatically using a perl script, and
> it's therefore much easier to stick to whatever LaTeX code works. Basically,
> I just want something comparable to the array environment in LaTeX, which
> works very nicely.
There is \startmathmatrix \stopmathmatrix which is equivalent to latex
array environment. This reminds me that I need to update myway on
startalign to include the matrix features.
Aditya
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