I had tried using \setupformulas, but it did not work when I posted my question. I suppose it was for the reason you mentioned. I will try it again, once I have downloaded the latest beta.
Thanks. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Aditya Mahajan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Curiouslearn wrote: > >> Hi, >> Can someone please help with the alignment of the equation so that it >> starts at left. I tried flushleft and other options (such as without >> \NC \NR, with align=left etc.). None of them result in the equation >> starting at the left margin. The equation is either placed in the >> middle or is aligned to the right. I want it to start at the left. >> >> Thanks. >> >> \setuppapersize[letter][letter] >> >> \starttext >> >> \startformula\startalign[align={left}] >> \NC\text{\bf Example: } >> \frac{d(4x^{2})}{dx} = 4 >> \frac{dx^{2}}{dx} = 4 (2x) = 8x.\NC{ }\NR >> \stopalign\stopformula >> >> \stoptext > > The correct way to do this is > > \setupformulas[align=flushleft] > > \starttext > \startformula > a = b > \stopformula > \stoptext > > However, this does not work in MkIV due to a bug introduced in the splitting > of mkii-mkiv files. math alignment works using commands > > \def\startinnermath > {\getvalue{\e!start\??fm\formulaparameter\c!align}} > > \def\stopinnermath > {\getvalue{\e!stop \??fm\formulaparameter\c!align}} > > which are defined in math-ali.mkiv. However, strc-mat.mkiv redefines these > to \empty, so the simple math alignment does not work anymore. > > Hans: we need to either move these definitions from math-ali to strc-mat or > remove > > \let\startinnermath\empty > \let\stopinnermath \empty > > from strc-mat.mkiv > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > 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://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
