Hi Mikael,
Basically, I see your problem with ConTeXts handling of math as a matter of
taste!
That is you want LaTeX syntax.
It is easy enough to get the results you want.
The only place where I see a bug is that a single prime is set larger than
multple
primes.
regards
Keith
Am 11.02.2014 um 14:18 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist <mic...@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schul...@uni-trier.de>
> wrote:
>
> Am 11.02.2014 um 09:57 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist <mic...@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> On 2/10/2014 9:24 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used ConTeXt (mkii) to write my PhD thesis in Mathematics in 2008. It
>> worked just fine.
>>
>> At the moment I write some exams and hand-outs using ConTeXt, but
>> research using LaTeX (since the journals do not really accept ConTeXt
>> and my collaborators dont know ConTeXt).
>>
>> It certainly works OK to write math in ConTeXt, but I have a feeling
>> that there are some things that are somewhat broken or not finetuned to
>> output what mathematicians expect. Look at the attached pdf files [1]
>> l.pdf (from LaTeX) and c.pdf (from latest standalone ConTeXt), with
>> source l.tex and c.tex for some examples.
>>
>> In mkiv we follow some alternative approaches compared to mkii (and probably
>> other tex macro packages) and some aspects indeed might need tuning (or more
>> configuration options) .. I try hard to get away from hackery solutions (for
>> several reasons).
>>
>> I agree it is good to avoid hackery as long as possible, and I for sure is
>> ready to relearn how to write some things. With the examples I gave in the
>> previous email in mind:
>>
>> * How am I supposed to write first derivative (f') and second derivative
>> (f'') in such a way that they have the same type of prime (the prime in the
>> first derivative is the one I prefer)?
>
> No sure if to call this a bug! It seems that a single prime is always
> larger than multiple ones!
> You can always change its size!
>
> I think the user should not have to change its size. All primes should have
> the same size, independent if they are one or several.
>
>
>> * How am I supposed to write f_xx'' to get the output as in the LaTeX
>> example (i.e. so that the primes are over the xx)?
>
> have to switch things around: f''_xx or f''_{xx} depending on the actual
> result you want.
>
> I know about the grouping. Please have a look at my example files in my
> earlier post in this thread.
>
>
>> * Could the default placement of limits in integrals be changed
>> (integral=nolimits)? This is how it is done in almost all math books).
>
> Not sure what you want here! example? can be LateX
>
> As above, I gave examples...
>
> Best regards, Mikael
>
>
>> * What about the size and finetuning of placement of indices in integrals
>> and sums (and probably products, unions, ...)?
>> * I remember I suggested that \| should be double bars in a previous thread
>> on this list. Is there any drawback in giving double bars for \|? Of course
>> I can relearn and use \lVert and \rVert, but I have a feeling that if we
>> want people moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt, then this is the kind of things
>> that should just work as expected...
>>
>> Best regards, Mikael
>
> regards
> Keith
>
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