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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Inspired by Alexander Perlis' macros in http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb22-4/tb72perlS.pdf can we have the math equivalent of llap etc. in ConTeXt.
Ideally, \llap etc. should be modified so that they work in math mode also (just like \smash and \phantom). If not, we can have the following simple definitions:
Some extra \do 's fix up the textmode comands (supp-box.tex):
\def\dorlap{\begingroup\dowithnextbox{\normalhbox to \zeropoint {\flushnextbox\normalhss}\endgroup}\normalhbox}
\def\dollap{\begingroup\dowithnextbox{\normalhbox to \zeropoint {\normalhss\flushnextbox}\endgroup}\normalhbox}
\def\doclap{\begingroup\dowithnextbox{\normalhbox to \zeropoint {\normalhss\flushnextbox\normalhss}\endgroup}\normalhbox}
\def\domathclap{\mathpalette\dodomathclap} \def\dodomathclap#1#2{\doclap{$\m@th#1#2$}}
\def\domathllap{\mathpalette\dodomathllap} \def\dodomathllap#1#2{\dollap{$\m@th#1#2$}}
\def\domathrlap{\mathpalette\dodomathrlap} \def\dodomathrlap#1#2{\dorlap{$\m@th#1#2$}}
\unexpanded\def\rlap{\ifmmode \@EA\domathrlap \else \@EA\dorlap \fi} \unexpanded\def\llap{\ifmmode \@EA\domathllap \else \@EA\dollap \fi} \unexpanded\def\clap{\ifmmode \@EA\domathclap \else \@EA\doclap \fi}
or
\unexpanded\def\rlap{\mathortext\domathrlap\dorlap} \unexpanded\def\llap{\mathortext\domathllap\dollap} \unexpanded\def\clap{\mathortext\domathclap\doclap}
before i add this, we need to be sure that llap/rlap are not used in math constructs which expect it to behave like an hbox
Maybe change \dorlap to \dotextrlap. Remembering that \dotextrlap is for text mode and \domathrlap is for math mode is easier than remembering the difference between \dorlap and \domathrlap. Does it make sense to make tlap and blap behave in the same way? I do not know of any advantage of them right away, but it may be better to be consistent with all commands of one 'category'. Aditya