Sunday, December 8, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH> At 07:24 PM 12/7/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>>def\startalign{%
>> \startformula
>> \let\\\cr
>> \grabuntil{stopalign}\doeqalign
>>}
>>\def\doeqalign#1{\eqalign{#1\cr}\stopformula}
HH> ^^ better make that \crcr in order to catch
HH> users \\
Will fix. I just "copied" the AMS defs ...
>>\let\stopalign\relax
>>
>>These allow me to write:
>>
>>\startalign
>> a & = b = \\
>> & = c
>>\stopalign
HH> isn't \startmathalign a better choice?
Maybe. I just "converted" the AMS-LaTeX "align" environment, so I
kept the align name.
>>and everything is fine. Yet I cannot do
>>
>>\placeformula[hook]
>>\startalign
>> a & = b = \\
>> & = c
>>\stopalign
>>
>>because of expansion problems. Why? How can I define the stuff?
HH> took me a couple of cd's to uncover this -)
HH> (1) placeformula has to look ahead, and the next command is not seen as
HH> something math; so,
HH> (2) i made another lookahead, and then
HH> (3) we ran into those \cr & and # things that may not always show up
HH> everywhere, so
HH> (4) i had to rewrite a low level macro that i didn't like rewriting, i.e.
HH> (5) i had to use a variant i'd always thought that could be avoided
HH> so, you spoiled my afternoon -)
:P Sorry, but it's your choice to work on sundays ;)
HH> btw, if you isolate/collect the ams math that's not yet in m-newmat, i can
HH> see if/how i can add it there in a configurable way, so if some things
HH> fails, we can look into it later
Ok. I'm "filling it up" as it comes while typesetting/converting
some notes (part of them were hand-written, part of the in LaTeX
form).
HH> you can try the version i just uploaded
Will do.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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