The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: > Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :( > > Matthias > > On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > > > On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote: > >> \starttext > >> \startformula \startalign > >> v &= u + at \\ > >> h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ > >> \stopalign \stopformula > >> \stoptext > >> > >> > >> ---->> > >> > >> ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english > >> (...) > >> ! Missing $ inserted. > >> > >> system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ > >> inserted ... > >> > >> 1 \starttext > >> 2 \startformula \startalign > >> 3 >> v &= u + at \\ > >> 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ > >> 5 \stopalign \stopformula > >> 6 \stoptext > >> > >> Thanks - > > > > the context way is: > > > > \startformula \startalign > > \NC v \NC = u + at \NR > > \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR > > \stopalign \stopformula > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > > | www.pragma-pod.nl > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / 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 : ntg-context@ntg.nl / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________