just realized: is it perhaps that in the first case, the square brackets are
interpreted as a list of parameters to \startformula?

2011/5/12 Julian Becker <becker.jul...@gmail.com>

> I just found out that I cannot (with MkIV on Windows XP, ConTeXt  ver.
> 2011.02.09 16:42) compile the following
>
> \starttext
> This formula produces an error:
> \startformula
> [r_{\rm test}]=a
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> \starttext
> However, this works:
> \startformula
> a=[r_{\rm test}]
> \stopformula
>
> What's going on here? Using \mathrm instead of \rm in the subscript is
> compiling without complaint, but produces the wrong output.
>
> Julian
>



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