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Hi,
On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 5:57 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal
I have defined a determinant environment like below:
\definemathmatrix[determinant] [matrix:bars] [simplecommand=thedeterminant]
and I create a determinant like below:
\startformula \startdeterminant\NC a_{11} \NC a_{12} \NC a_{13} \NC \cdots \NC a_{1n}\NR \NC a_{21} \NC a_{22} \NC a_{23} \NC \cdots \NC a_{2n}\NR \NC a_{31} \NC a_{32} \NC a_{33} \NC \cdots \NC a_{3n}\NR \multispan{9}{\dotfill}\NR \NC a_{n1} \NC a_{n2} \NC a_{n3} \NC \cdots \NC a_{nn} \NR\stopdeterminant
This was working before today but I updated ConTeXt and it has stopped working. The error it gives me now is:
tex error > tex error on line 277 in file determinants.tex: You can't use '\Ustopmath' in restricted horizontal mode
How can I get it working again?
-- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal
I never seen \multispan before. But this seems to work: \definemathmatrix [determinant] [matrix:bars] [simplecommand=thedeterminant] \starttext \startformula \startdeterminant \NC a_{11} \NC a_{12} \NC a_{13} \NC \cdots \NC a_{1n}\NR \NC a_{21} \NC a_{22} \NC a_{23} \NC \cdots \NC a_{2n}\NR \NC a_{31} \NC a_{32} \NC a_{33} \NC \cdots \NC a_{3n}\NR \HF\NR % \multispan{9}{\dotfill}\NR \NC a_{n1} \NC a_{n2} \NC a_{n3} \NC \cdots \NC a_{nn}\NR \stopdeterminant \stopformula \stoptext I hope it gives you what you want. /Mikael