Thank you for your extremely thorough and helpful response, Hans! I'm still fairly new to ConTeXt, but I'm learning, and I have been helped greatly by all the support that is generously provided on this email list.
With thanks, Sciurus -----Original Message----- From: Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:10 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; t...@projectivespace.com Subject: Re: [NTG-context] math symbol for "is an element of" On 11/6/2020 12:24 AM, t...@projectivespace.com wrote: > In this particular case, as Wolfgang pointed out, \in actually does work to > get the desired symbol in math mode. But it is good to know how to use text > substitutions too. WHen you are in doubt you can do this: \meaning\in it will show you that the commands is adapting itself to math mode. There are a few such commands with 'clashing' names. A variant on this is \NC which is the column separator but has a different meaning depending on where it's used. That one gets set to some meaning in environments. Another overloaded one is \\ and it could be a space or newline or ... Actually the last two are candidates for protectiopn against overload. btw, users can run context with --overloadmode=warning --overloadmode=error to see if their usage of commands or definitions bring conflicts. Currently \in is not yet protected against overload but it will be. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________