Hi, An extra chapter in: http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/about.pdf explaining abit the updated math fractions (and math styles mechanism). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 10 avr. 2013, at 20:09, Hans Hagen
Hi,
An extra chapter in:
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/about.pdf
explaining abit the updated math fractions (and math styles mechanism).
Hi Hans, Thanks for the explanations given in the above new manual about the new features with fractions and fences. However, on page 27, there is a sentence which I disagree with… You say there: « ConTEXt is always considered somewhat less math savvy than for instance LaTEX », but actually I cannot see any example of maths typesetting which cannot be done in ConTeXt. It is true that most mathematicians may not use ConTeXt, but this is because they are not aware of the package and, mainly, because maths journals do not accept yet papers typeset with ConTeXt. I hope this will change soon. Best regards: OK
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Otared Kavian
However, on page 27, there is a sentence which I disagree with… You say there: « ConTEXt is always considered somewhat less math savvy than for instance LaTEX », but actually I cannot see any example of maths typesetting which cannot be done in ConTeXt. It is true that most mathematicians may not use ConTeXt, but this is because they are not aware of the package and, mainly, because maths >journals do not accept yet papers typeset with ConTeXt. I hope this will change soon. It's true that "ConTEXt is always considered less math savy than LaTeX" not that "ConTEXt is less math savy than LaTeX".
-- luigi
On 4/11/2013 10:15 PM, Peter Münster wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11 2013, luigi scarso wrote:
It's true that "ConTEXt is always considered less math savy than LaTeX" not that "ConTEXt is less math savy than LaTeX".
Perhaps better: "always" -> "often" ?
Ok. Concerning math ... in many aspects the functionality of mkii is available in mkiv, but the implementation is often completely different, which makes that we can go a step further in control. Years ago, when he was involved in scientific publishing, Taco made sure that mkii had most of the features needed to deal with advanced math (at that time via a module that implemented some ams constructs). Eventually that code was normalized, extended and integrated into the Later Aditya added support for ams-like code too. In mkiv nearly all had been or will be redone. Some of the accumulated implementation details are quite interesting (compared to the traditional approach) so I might wrap that up some day in a larger summary (chapter). I uploaded the latest hybrid.pdf to the website which has some explanations and I'll try to keep wrapping up in future chapters if About (and other documents). If you feel that something fundamental is missing, don't hesitate to mention it. (Many math sub-mechanisms are relatively independent so adding code has not much change of breaking existing code.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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