Hi Alan,
thanks for your help. That's indeed an option, but not much of a difference to
using "\normal" I suppose.
In addition, "\text" has the nice feature of preserving the space character,
which makes it very useful for lazy people (of course I can add "\," and
friends but...).
Cheers,
Andreas
ConTeXt ver: 2012.09.25 21:44 MKIV fmt: 2012.10.1
%%%%%%%%%%%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE %%%%%%%%%%%%
\setupbodyfont[xits]
\starttext
$f_{\mathrm{text and text}_{\mathrm{text and text}_{\mathrm{text and text}}}}$
$f_{\text{text and text}_{\text{text and text}_{\text{text and text}}}}$
$f_{{\normal text}_{{\normal text}_{\normal text}}}$
\stoptext
%%%%%%%%%%%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE %%%%%%%%%%%%
Am Oct 4, 2012 um 9:27 AM schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:10:17 +0200
> Andreas Mang <m...@imt.uni-luebeck.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> As Aditya mentioned in a former posting (*) that "\text{ ... }"
>> should scale properly when used as super- or subscript, I have
>> prepared a minimal example to demonstrate that it doesn't. In my
>> document I have switched from "\text{ }" to "\normal", which works.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>> ConTeXt ver: 2012.09.25 21:44 MKIV fmt: 2012.10.1
>>
>> %% MINIMAL EXAMPLE
>> \setupbodyfont[xits]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> $f_{\text{text}_{\text{text}_{\text{text}}}}$
>>
>> $f_{{\normal text}_{{\normal text}_{\normal text}}}$
>>
>> \stoptext
>> %% MINIMAL EXAMPLE
>>
>> (*) see "[NTG-context] punctuation vs font switch"
>
> Hello,
>
> I generally use \mathrm{} (maybe this is a leftover from LaTeX
> practice), and this works fine.
>
> Alan
>
>
> \setupbodyfont [xits]
> \starttext
> $f_{\mathrm{text}_{\mathrm{text}_{\mathrm{text}}}}$
>
> $f_{{\normal text}_{{\normal text}_{\normal text}}}$
> \stoptext
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